Abstract
The concept of a Luttinger liquid in 1D is extended to include twisted boundary conditions on a ring and mesoscopic parity effects due to evenness and oddness of the particle number . Using Haldane’s notion of topological excitations, a proof of Leggett’s conjecture is presented, stating that the ground state of interacting 1D quantum systems is diamagnetic or paramagnetic depending on the parity of . The persistent currents produced by an Aharonov-Bohm flux are calculated and shown to have period and amplitude that are in agreement with recent experiments.
- Received 13 February 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.343
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