title: Dissipation-driven quantum phase transitions in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid electrostatically coupled to a metallic gate.
abstract: The dissipation induced by a metallic gate on the low-energy properties of interacting 1D electron liquids is studied. As a function of the distance to the gate, or the electron density in the wire, the system can undergo a quantum phase transition from a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid to two kinds of dissipative phases, one of them with a finite spatial correlation length. We also define a dual model, which describes an attractive one-dimensional metal with a Josephson coupling to a dirty metallic lead.
authors.affiliation: Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018-Donostia, Spain.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cazalilla
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sols
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guinea