Fermionic renormalization group methods for transport through inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids

Details Fermionic renormalization group methods for transport through inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids Fermionic renormalization group methods for transport through inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids

2008-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/0801.3890v2

New Journal of Physics 10, 045012 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

25 pages, accepted for publication in NJP, remarks added on the poor man's RG treatment of the Y-junction and the Breit-Wigner

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/10/4/045012

We compare two fermionic renormalization group methods which have been used to investigate the electronic transport properties of one-dimensional metals with two-particle interaction (Luttinger liquids) and local inhomogeneities. The first one is a poor man's method setup to resum ``leading-log'' divergences of the effective transmission at the Fermi momentum. Generically the resulting equations can be solved analytically. The second approach is based on the functional renormalization group method and leads to a set of differential equations which can only for certain setups and in limiting cases be solved analytically, while in general it must be integrated numerically. Both methods are claimed to be applicable for inhomogeneities of arbitrary strength and to capture effects of the two-particle interaction, such as interaction dependent exponents, up to leading order. We critically review this for the simplest case of a single impurity. While on first glance the poor man's approach seems to describe the crossover from the ``perfect'' to the ``open chain fixed point'' we collect evidence that difficulties may arise close to the ``perfect chain fixed point''. Due to a subtle relation between the scaling dimensions of the two fixed points this becomes apparent only in a detailed analysis. In the functional renormalization group method the coupling of the different scattering channels is kept which leads to a better description of the underlying physics.

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