title: Transport of charge-density waves in the presence of disorder: classical pinning versus quantum localization.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Mirlin
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Polyakov
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Vinokur