On the Zero-Bias Anomaly in Quantum Wires

S. Sarkozy, F. Sfigakis, K. Das Gupta, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, G. A. C. Jones, M. Pepper

Published 2008-10-06Version 1

Undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures have been used to fabricate quantum wires in which the average impurity separation is greater than the device size. We compare the behavior of the Zero-Bias Anomaly against predictions from Kondo and spin polarization models. Both theories display shortcomings, the most dramatic of which are the linear electron-density dependence of the Zero-Bias Anomaly spin-splitting at fixed magnetic field B and the suppression of the Zeeman effect at pinch-off.