Signal Transport in and Conductance of Correlated Nanostructures

Peter Schmitteckert
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Peter Schmitteckert: Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie

A chapter in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering `07, 2008, pp 99-106 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Transport properties of strongly interacting quantum systems are a major challenge in todays condensed matter theory. While much is known for transport properties of non-interacting electrons, based on the Landauer Büttiker formalism, the non equilibrium properties of interacting fermions are an open problem. Due to the vast improvements in experimental techniques there is an increasing theoretical interest in one-dimensional quantum systems. Since in low dimension the screening of electrons is reduced the effective interaction gets increased and can drive the electron systems into new phases beyond the standard description of a Fermi liquid, e.g. into a Luttinger liquid.

Keywords: Entanglement Entropy; Spin Component; Luttinger Liquid; Density Matrix Renormalization Group; Periodic Boundary Condition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74739-0_7

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