Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: We study power dissipation for systems of multiple quantum wires meeting at a junction, in terms of a current splitting matrix $(\mathbb{M})$ describing the junction. We present a unified framework for studying dissipation for wires with either interacting electrons (i.e., Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid wires with Fermi-liquid leads) or noninteracting electrons. We show that for a given matrix $\mathbb{M}$, the eigenvalues of ${\mathbb{M}}^{T}\mathbb{M}$ characterize the dissipation, and the eigenvectors identify the combinations of bias voltages which need to be applied to the different wires in order to maximize the dissipation associated with the junction. We use our analysis to propose and study some microscopic models of a dissipative junction which employ the edge states of a quantum Hall liquid. These models realize some specific forms of the $\mathbb{M}$ matrix whose entries depends on the tunneling amplitudes between the different edges.
Source: Physical Review B
Authors: Amit Agarwal, Sourin Das, Diptiman Sen
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1993726674