Phenomenological investigation of many-body induced modifications to the one-dimensional density of states of long quantum wires

We investigate the behavior of interacting one-dimensional systems using linear ( close to equilibrium) and non-linear transport measurements of split-gate quantum wires of varying channel length. Our measurements reveal a remarkable resonance effect in the differential conductance, which exhibits a pronounced peak, for a narrow range of source-drain voltage, at the transition from tunneling to open transport. This peak becomes more pronounced with increase of channel length, but is rapidly suppressed by increase of temperature or ( in-plane) magnetic field. We believe that these unique features may arise from the dependence of transport on the electron density of states, and suggest a phenomenological model to account for this transport behavior.