Transient and Sharvin resistances of Luttinger liquids

Fermi Liquids and Luttinger Liquids

Fractons and Luttinger liquids

We consider the concept of fractons as particles or quasiparticles which obey a specific fractal statistics in connection with a one-dimensional Luttinger liquid theory. We obtain a dual statistics parameter ν̃ = ν+1 which is identified with the controlling parameter e−2φ of the Luttinger model. In this way, a bosonic system characterized by a fractal index if [h] = if [2] = 1 is considered as a...

Ferromagnetic Luttinger liquids

We study weak itinerant ferromagnetism in one-dimensional Fermi systems using perturbation theory and bosonization. We find that longitudinal spin fluctuations propagate ballistically with velocity vm!vF , where vF is the Fermi velocity. This leads to a large anomalous dimension in the spin channel and strong algebraic singularities in the single-particle spectral function and in the transverse...

Transport in Luttinger Liquids

We give a brief introduction to Luttinger liquids and to the phenomena of electronic transport or conductance in quantum wires. We explain why the subject of transport in Luttinger liquids is relevant and fascinating and review some important results on tunneling through barriers in a one-dimensional quantum wire and the phenomena of persistent currents in mesoscopic rings. We give a brief desc...

Ratchet Effects in Luttinger Liquids

We investigate a one-dimensional electron liquid with two point scatterers of different strength. In the presence of electron interactions, the nonlinear conductance is shown to depend on the current direction. The resulting asymmetry of the transport characteristic gives rise to a ratchet effect, i.e., the rectification of a dc current for an applied ac voltage. In the case of strong repulsive...