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Tunneling and Quantum Noise in 1-D Luttinger Liquids

arXiv:cond-mat/9408064 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.51.2363

Abstract

We study non-equilibrium noise in the transmission current through barriers in 1-D Luttinger liquids and in the tunneling current between edges of fractional quantum Hall liquids. The distribution of tunneling events through narrow barriers can be described by a Coulomb gas lying in the time axis along a Keldysh (or non-equilibrium) contour. The charges tend to reorganize as a dipole gas, which we use to describe the tunneling statistics. Intra-dipole correlations contribute to the high-frequency ``Josephson'' noise, which has an algebraic singularity at , whereas inter-dipole correlations are responsible for the low-frequency noise. Inter-dipole interactions give a correlation between the tunneling events that results in a singularity in the noise spectrum. We present a diagrammatic technique to calculate the correlations in perturbation theory, and show that contributions from terms of order higher than the dipole-dipole interaction should only affect the strength of the singularity, but its form should remain to all orders in perturbation theory.

RevTex, 9 figures available upon request, cond-mat/yymmnnn

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