Conductivity of a clean one-dimensional wire
We study the low-temperature low-frequency conductivity sigma of an interacting one-dimensional electron system in the presence of a periodic potential. The conductivity is strongly influenced by conservation laws, which, we argue, need to be violated by at least two noncommuting umklapp processes to render sigma finite. The resulting dynamics of the slow modes is studied within a memory matrix approach, and we find an exponential increase as the temperature is lowered, sigma approximately (Deltan)(2)e(T0/(NT)) close to commensurate filling M/N, Deltan = n-M/N<<1, and sigma approximately e((T(')(0)/T)(2/3)) elsewhere.
Rosch
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Center of Materials Theory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-0849, USA.
Andrei
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