Interactions and Disorder in Multi-Channel Quantum Wires

Details Interactions and Disorder in Multi-Channel Quantum Wires Interactions and Disorder in Multi-Channel Quantum Wires

1997-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9701155v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

9 pages, REVTex with 1 Postscript figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.55.13808

Recent experiments have revealed that the temperature dependence of the conductance of quasi-ballistic quantum wires bears clear features of the Luttinger-liquid state. In this paper, the conductance of an N-channel quantum wire is calculated within the model of N coupled Luttinger liquids and under the assumption of weak disorder. It is shown that as the number of channels increases, a crossover from the Luttinger-liquid to the Fermi-liquid behavior occurs. This crossover manifests itself in the 1/N decrease of the scaling exponent of the temperature dependence. An exact expression for the scaling exponent for the case of N coupled Luttinger chains is obtained, and the large N limit is studied for the case of a quantum wire. The case of N=2 for electrons with spin is analyzed in detail, and a qualitative agreement with the experiment is achieved.

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