Nonunitary Spin-Charge Separation in a One-Dimensional Fermion Gas

Vadim V. Cheianov and M. B. Zvonarev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 176401 – Published 27 April 2004

Abstract

In this Letter we report exact results on the infrared asymptotics of the one-particle dynamical correlation function of the gas of impenetrable spin 1/2 fermions at infinitesimal temperature. The correlation function shows signs of spin-charge separation with scaling behavior in the charge part and exponential decay as a function of the space coordinate in the spin part. Surprisingly, the anomalous dimensions in the charge part do not correspond to any unitary conformal field theory. We find that the fermion spectral weight has a power law divergency at low energy with the anomalous exponent 1/2.

  • Received 1 September 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.176401

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Vadim V. Cheianov1 and M. B. Zvonarev2,3

  • 1NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen Ø, DK 2100, Denmark
  • 2Ørsted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute for APG, Universitetsparken 5, Copenhagen Ø, DK 2100, Denmark
  • 3Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Fontanka 27, St. Petersburg 191023, Russia

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Vol. 92, Iss. 17 — 30 April 2004

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