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Signatures of spin-charge separation in scanning probe microscopy

Iddo Ussishkin, Leonid I. Glazman

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0407009

Abstract

We analyze the effect of an auxiliary scatterer, such as the potential of a scanning tip, on the conductance of an interacting one-dimensional electron system. We find that the differential conductance for tunneling into the end of a semi-infinite quantum wire reflects the separation of the elementary excitations into spin and charge modes. The separation is revealed as a specific pattern in the dependence of the conductance on bias and on the position of the scatterer.

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