Interaction Effects on the Conductance in One-Dimensional Systems -- Short-Range Interaction --

Arisato Kawabata

Published 1997-01-23Version 1

We investigate the effect of electron-electron interactions on the conductance of quasi one-dimensional systems without potential scattering. For a finite temperature or system length, the short-range interaction is not renormalized to 0, and it gives rise to a finite correction to the conductance if we calculate it using Kubo formula. We show that this correction can be absorbed into the renormalization of the chemical potential and that the properly defined conductance to be observed in the experiments is equal to that of non-interacting electrons.