Spin-catalyzed hopping conductivity in disordered strongly interacting quantum wires

S. A. Parameswaran1,2 and S. Gopalakrishnan2,3,4 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA 2Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 3Department of Physics and Burke Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 4Department of Engineering Science and Physics, CUNY College of Staten Island, Staten Island, New York 10314, USA (Received 29 June 2016; revised manuscript received 27 October 2016; published 6 January 2017)