Electronic phases of low-dimensional conductors

TL;DR

This paper reviews the physics of electronic phases in low-dimensional conductors, focusing on one-dimensional models, interchain coupling effects, and their relation to experimental observations in organic and inorganic materials.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical models and their connection to experimental findings in low-dimensional electronic systems.

Findings

Bosonization and renormalization group methods elucidate 1D electron gas properties.

Interchain coupling influences the transition to higher-dimensional electronic states.

Connections between theoretical models and experimental observations in quasi-1D conductors are discussed.

Abstract

We briefly review the physics of electronic phases in low dimensional conductors. We begin by introducing the properties of the one-dimensional electron gas model using bosonization and renormalization group methods.We then tackle the influence of interchain coupling and go through the different instabilities of the electron system to the formation of higher dimensional states. The connection with observations made in quasi-one-dimensional organic and inorganic conductors is discussed.