Response Functions of Two-Coupled Chains of Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids

Abstract

Properties of fluctuations in two chains of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids coupled by the interchain hopping have been studied by calculating retarded response functions $\chi^R_{\rho} (q_x,q_y;\omega)$ for charge and $\chi^R_{\p} (q_x,q_y;\omega)$ for spin where $q_x$ and $q_y (=0$ or $\pi$) denote the longitudinal and transverse wave vector, respectively, and $\omega$ is the frequency. We have found the notable fact that the repulsive intrachain interaction results in the clear enhancement of ${\rm{Im}}\chi^R_\p (q_x,\pi;\omega)$ and the suppression of ${\rm{Im}}\chi^R_\rho (q_x,\pi;\omega)$ at low energies. This result indicates the importance of the dynamical effect by the spin fluctuation with $q_y = \pi$ and small $\omega$, which has a possibility to give rise to the attractive interaction for the electron pairing.