Wednesday, July 3, 2013

1307.0344 (N. Sedlmayr et al.)

The Two-Band Luttinger Liquid with Spin-Orbit Coupling: Applications to
Monatomic Chains on Surfaces
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N. Sedlmayr, P. Korell, J. Sirker
Recently, monatomic chains on surfaces have been synthesized which show evidence of Luttinger liquid physics. The experimental data point to a dispersion along the chain with four Fermi points. Here we investigate a general low-energy effective Hamiltonian for such a two-band model where SU(2) spin symmetry is broken but time reversal symmetry persists, as is expected due to the surface geometry. Spin-orbit coupling gives rise to a new energy scale epsilon_{SO} much smaller than the Fermi energy epsilon_F and to spin non-conserving scattering processes. We derive the generic phase diagram at zero temperature as well as an effective phase diagram at temperatures epsilon_{SO} < T << epsilon_F. For the part of the phase diagram where a Luttinger liquid is found to be stable, the density of states and the spectral function are calculated and discussed in relation to the experimental data.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0344

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