Effective narrow ladder model for two quantum wires on a semiconducting substrate

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Original languageEnglish
Article number245405
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume103
Issue number24
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jun 2021

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We present a theoretical study of two spinless fermion wires coupled to a three-dimensional semiconducting substrate. We develop a mapping of wires and substrate onto a system of two coupled two-dimensional ladder lattices using a block Lanczos algorithm. We then approximate the resulting system by narrow ladder models, which can be investigated using the density-matrix renormalization group method. In the absence of any direct wire-wire hopping we find that the substrate can mediate an effective wire-wire coupling so that the wires could form an effective two-leg ladder with a Mott charge-density-wave insulating ground state for arbitrarily small nearest-neighbor repulsion. In other cases the wires remain effectively uncoupled even for strong wire-substrate hybridizations leading to the possible stabilization of the Luttinger liquid phase at finite nearest-neighbor repulsion as found previously for single wires on substrates. These investigations show that it may be difficult to determine under which conditions the physics of correlated one-dimensional electrons can be realized in arrays of atomic wires on semiconducting substrates because they seem to depend on the model (and consequently material) particulars.

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Effective narrow ladder model for two quantum wires on a semiconducting substrate. / Abdelwahab, Anas; Jeckelmann, Eric.
In: Physical Review B, Vol. 103, No. 24, 245405, 02.06.2021.

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