Tunneling exponents sensitive to impurity scattering in quantum wires
arXiv:cond-mat/0703034 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.076801
Abstract
We show that the scaling exponent for tunneling into a quantum wire in the "Coulomb Tonks gas" regime of impenetrable, but otherwise free, electrons is affected by impurity scattering in the wire. The exponent for tunneling into such a wire thus depends on the conductance through the wire. This striking effect originates from a many-body scattering resonance reminiscent of the Kondo effect. The predicted anomalous scaling is stable against weak perturbations of the ideal Tonks gas limit at sufficiently high energies, similar to the phenomenology of a quantum critical point.
5 pages, 2 figures; slightly extended version of the published article
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