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Effects of a weak disorder on two coupled Hubbard chains E. Orignac and T. Giamarchi Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universit´e Paris–Sud, Bˆat. 510, 91405 Orsay, France1 (February 1, 2008) 5 9 9 Abstract 1 l u J We consider the effect of weak nonmagnetic disorder on two chains of in- 1 1 teracting fermions (with and without spins) coupled by interchain hopping. 1 For the spinless case, interchain hopping increases localization for repulsive v 9 2 interactions but stabilizes the s-wave superconducting phase for attractive 0 7 interactions. For the case with spin, the d-wave phase arising from purely 0 5 9 repulsive interactions in the clean system is destroyed by an infinitesimal dis- / t a order while for attractive interactions, the s-wave superconductivity is more m - resistant to disorder than in the one-chain case. d n o c : v i X r a Typeset using REVT X E 1 One dimensional electronic systems are known to be the simplest realizations of non- fermi liquids, and to have generic properties known as Luttinger liquids [2–4]. Despite the good understanding of purely one dimensional systems, the effects of interchain hopping, allowing to go from one to higher (two or three) dimensions are much less known. Whether such hopping is relevant and drives the system towards a Fermi liquid fixed point or whether non-fermi liquid properties can be retained even in presence