Equilibration of a spinless Luttinger liquid.
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Materials Science Division
We study how a Luttinger liquid of spinless particles in one dimension approaches thermal equilibrium. Full equilibration requires processes of backscattering of excitations, which occur at energies of the order of the bandwidth. Such processes are not accounted for by the Luttinger-liquid theory. We treat the high-energy excitations as mobile impurities and derive an expression for the equilibration rate in terms of their spectrum. Our results apply at any interaction strength.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- SC
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1037557
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/MSD/JA-70652
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 85; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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