title: Energy partitioning of tunneling currents into Luttinger liquids.
abstract: Tunneling of electrons of definite chirality into a quantum wire creates counterpropagating excitations, carrying both charge and energy. We find that the partitioning of energy is qualitatively different from that of charge. The partition ratio of energy depends on the excess energy of the tunneling electrons (controlled by the applied bias) and on the interaction strength within the wire (characterized by the Luttinger-liquid parameter κ), while the partitioning of charge is fully determined by κ. Moreover, unlike for charge currents, the partitioning of energy current should manifest itself in dc experiments on wires contacted by conventional (Fermi-liquid) leads.
authors: Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors: Torsten
authors: T
authors: Karzig
authors: Gil
authors: G
authors: Refael
authors: Leonid I
authors: LI
authors: Glazman
authors: Felix
authors: F
authors: von Oppen