title: Two-dimensional anisotropic non-Fermi-liquid phase of coupled Luttinger liquids.
abstract: Using bosonization techniques, we show that strong forward scattering interactions between one-dimensional spinless Luttinger liquids (LL) can stabilize a phase where charge-density wave, superconducting, and transverse single particle hopping perturbations are irrelevant. This new phase retains its LL-like properties in the directions of the chains, but with relations between exponents modified by the transverse interactions, whereas it is a perfect insulator in the transverse direction. The mechanism that stabilizes this phase is strong transverse charge-density wave fluctuations at incommensurate wave vector, which frustrates crystal formation by preventing lock-in of the in-chain density waves.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vishwanath
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carpentier