Renormalization group study of the conductances of interacting quantum wire systems with different geometries

Details Renormalization group study of the conductances of interacting quantum wire systems with different geometries Renormalization group study of the conductances of interacting quantum wire systems with different geometries

2003-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311563v1

Phys. Rev. B 70 (2004) 085318

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Revtex, 17 pages including 15 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.085318

We examine the effect of interactions between the electrons on the conductances of some systems of quantum wires with different geometries. The systems include a wire with a stub in the middle, a wire containing a ring which can enclose a magnetic flux, and a system of four wires which are connected in the middle through a fifth wire. Each of the wires is taken to be a weakly interacting Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, and scattering matrices are introduced at all the junctions. Using a renormalization group method developed recently for studying the flow of scattering matrices for interacting systems in one dimension, we compute the conductances of these systems as functions of the temperature and the wire lengths. We present results for all three regimes of interest, namely, high, intermediate and low temperature. These correspond respectively to the thermal coherence length being smaller than, comparable to and larger than the smallest wire length in the different systems, i.e., the length of the stub or each arm of the ring or the fifth wire. The renormalization group procedure and the formulae used to compute the conductances are different in the three regimes. We present a phenomenologically motivated formalism for studying the conductances in the intermediate regime where there is only partial coherence. At low temperatures, we study the line shapes of the conductances versus the electron energy near some of the resonances; the widths of the resonances go to zero with decreasing temperature. Our results show that the conductances of various systems of experimental interest depend on the temperature and lengths in a non-trivial way when interactions are taken into account.

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