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Correlation-induced memory effects in transport properties of low-dimensional systems
E Perfetto1, G Stefanucci, M Cini
1Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
We demonstrate the remnant presence of initial correlations in the steady-state electrical current jS flowing between low-dimensional interacting leads. The leads are described as Luttinger liquids and electrons can tunnel via a quantum point contact. We derive an analytic result for the time-dependent current and show that ground-state correlations have a large impact on the relaxation and long-time behavior. In particular, the I-V characteristic is not reproduced by quenching the interaction in time. We further present a universal formula of jS for an arbitrary sequence of interaction quenches and it is established that jS is history dependent for nonsmooth switching process.
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