Electronic transport through a contact of a correlated quantum wire with leads of higher dimension

Details Electronic transport through a contact of a correlated quantum wire with leads of higher dimension Electronic transport through a contact of a correlated quantum wire with leads of higher dimension

2010-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5493v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, to be published in JETP Letters, vol. 91

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We study theoretically electronic transport through a contact of a quantum wire with 2D or 3D leads and find that if the contact is not smooth and adiabatic then the conduction is strongly suppressed below a threshold voltage $V_T$, while above $V_T$ the dc current $\bar I$ is accompanied by coherent oscillations of frequency $f=\bar I / e$. The effect is related to interelectronic repulsion and interaction of dc current with the Friedel oscillations near a sharp contact. In short conducting channels of length $L < L_0 \simeq \hbar v_F/eV_T$ and at high temperatures $T > T_0 \simeq eV_T/k_B$ the effect is destroyed by fluctuations.

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