Functional integral bosonization for an impurity in a Luttinger liquid

Alex Grishin, Igor V. Yurkevich, and Igor V. Lerner
Phys. Rev. B 69, 165108 – Published 7 April 2004
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Abstract

We use a functional integral formalism developed earlier for the pure Luttinger liquid (LL) to find an exact representation for the electron Green function of the LL in the presence of a single backscattering impurity in the low-temperature limit. This allows us to reproduce results (well known from the bosonization techniques) for the suppression of the electron local density of states (LDOS) at the position of the impurity and for the Friedel oscillations at finite temperature. In addition, we have extracted from the exact representation an analytic dependence of LDOS on the distance from the impurity and shown how it crosses over to that for the pure LL.

  • Received 17 July 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.165108

©2004 American Physical Society

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Alex Grishin, Igor V. Yurkevich, and Igor V. Lerner

  • School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom

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Vol. 69, Iss. 16 — 15 April 2004

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