Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1999-12-06
Physical Review B, Volume 60, Issue 1, pp. 88-91 (1999)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.60.88
We study the transversal dynamics of a charged stripe (quantum string) and show that zero temperature quantum fluctuations are able to depin it from the lattice. If the hopping amplitude t is much smaller than the string tension J, the string is pinned by the underlying lattice. At t>>J, the string is depinned and allowed to move freely, if we neglect the effect of impurities. By mapping the system onto a 1D array of Josephson junctions, we show that the quantum depinning occurs at t/J = 2 / pi^2. Besides, we exploit the relation of the stripe Hamiltonian to the sine-Gordon theory and calculate the infrared excitation spectrum of the quantum string for arbitrary t/J values.
Caldeira Amir O.
Dimashko Yu. A.
Hasselmann Nils
Smith Christopher M.
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