{
  "id": "0910.3389",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-10-18T16:54:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-10-18T16:54:10.000Z",
  "title": "Transport properties of partially equilibrated quantum wires",
  "authors": [
    "Tobias Micklitz",
    "Jérôme Rech",
    "K. A. Matveev"
  ],
  "comment": "20 pages, 6 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 81, 115313 (2010)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.81.115313",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the effect of thermal equilibration on the transport properties of a weakly interacting one-dimensional electron system. Although equilibration is severely suppressed due to phase-space restrictions and conservation laws, it can lead to intriguing signatures in partially equilibrated quantum wires. We consider an ideal homogeneous quantum wire. We find a finite temperature correction to the quantized conductance, which for a short wire scales with its length, but saturates to a length-independent value once the wire becomes exponentially long. We also discuss thermoelectric properties of long quantum wires. We show that the uniform quantum wire is a perfect thermoelectric refrigerator, approaching Carnot efficiency with increasing wire length.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-10-18T16:54:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "71.10.Pm",
      "73.23.-b"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "partially equilibrated quantum wires",
      "transport properties",
      "uniform quantum wire",
      "short wire scales",
      "perfect thermoelectric refrigerator"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Mar",
      "volume": 81,
      "number": 11,
      "pages": 115313
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 20,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvB..81k5313M"
    }
  }
}