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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 86, Issue 20, Pages 4632-4635Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4632
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It has been proposed that the Si(557)-Au surface exhibits spin-charge separation in a one-dimensional electron liquid. Two narrowly spaced bands are found which exhibit a well-defined splitting at the Fermi level. That is incompatible with the assignment to a spinon-holon pair in a Luttinger liquid. instead, we propose that the two bands are associated with two nearly degenerate atomic chains, or a chain of step atoms with two broken bonds. Such an assignment explains why the surface is metallic despite an even number of electrons per unit cell.
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