Effect of impurity pinning on conduction and specific heat in the Luttinger liquid
arXiv:0811.3884 · doi:10.1016/j.physb.2008.11.091
Abstract
We study theoretically two effects related to impurity depinning that are common for 1D Luttinger liquid (LL) and linear-chain CDW conductors. First, we consider the electron transport through a single impurity in a 1D conducting channel and study a new regime of conduction related to LL sliding at voltage above a threshold one. The DC current in this regime is accompanied by oscillations with frequency . This resembles the CDW depinning in linear-chain conductors, the Josephson effect, and the Coulomb blockade. Second, we found that strong pinning of the LL by impurities leads to a magnetic field dependence of the low-temperature specific heat similar to that observed experimentally in CDW compounds. We interpret this in favor of possibility of formation of the LL in linear-chain compounds.
6 pages, paper presented at the ECRYS-2008 conference (Aug. 2008), accepted for publication in Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter