1999/09/24 by Sylvain Capponi, Didier Poilblanc, Thierry Giamarchi · 4 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Organic and Molecular Conductors Research #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.61.13410
published as Phys. Rev. B 61, 13410 (2000) · Latex, Postscripts files included
arxiv created 1999/09/24 · openalex publication_date 2000/05/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The effects of a long-range electronic potential on a one-dimensional chain of spinless fermions are investigated by numerical techniques (exact diagonalization of rings with up to 30 sites complemented by finite size analysis) and analytic calculations. Due to a competition between the 2kF oscillations in the density and the (very slow) log divergence of the long wavelength part of the Coulomb potential, the metallic character of the system is enhanced at intermediate (and up to quite large) length scales. Despite some similarities, we found that this quasimetallic regime is not of the Luttinger liquid type, as evidenced by strong deviations from predictions of conformal field theory and in agreement with the picture of a (very weakly pinned) Wigner crystal. When the strength of the Coulomb interaction is substantially increased, we observe a smooth crossover to a strongly localized charge density wave.