Abstract

We investigate the low-energy properties of (quasi) helical and fractional helical Luttinger liquids. In particular, we calculate the Drude peak of the optical conductivity, the density of states, as well as charge transport properties of the interacting system with and without attached Fermi liquid leads at small and large (compared to the gap) frequencies. For fractional wires, we find that the low-energy tunneling density of states vanishes. The conductance of a fractional helical Luttinger liquid is noninteger. It is independent of the Luttinger parameters in the wire, despite the intricate mixing of charge and spin degrees of freedom, and only depends on the relative locking of charge and spin degrees of freedom.

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