2006/12/31 by A. D. Mirlin, D. G. Polyakov, V. M. Vinokur · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Organic and Molecular Conductors Research #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum many-body systems #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.156405
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156405 (2007) · 4 pages
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We consider the interplay of the elastic pinning and the Anderson localization in the transport properties of a charge-density wave in one dimension, within the framework of the Luttinger model in the limit of strong repulsion. We address a conceptually important issue of which of the two disorder-induced phenomena limits the mobility more effectively. We argue that the interplay of the classical and quantum effects in transport of a very rigid charge-density wave is quite nontrivial: the quantum localization sets in at a temperature much smaller than the pinning temperature, whereas the quantum localization length is much smaller than the pinning length.