Abstract
A model is found whereby the Coulomb interaction during electron transport in quantum wires of finite length with current-lead contacts can be taken into account exactly (within the framework of the bosonization method). It is established that the charge density distribution along a wire in the case of the real Coulomb interaction is strongly different from the Luttinger liquid model, where the interaction is assumed to be short-ranged. The charge density near the contacts is found to be much higher than in the model with a short-range interaction, but away from the contacts the two densities are closer to each other.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 67, No. 3, 184–189 (10 February 1998)