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arXiv:1602.01679 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Boundary versus bulk behavior of time-dependent correlation functions in one-dimensional quantum systems

I. S. Eliëns, Flávia B. Ramos, J. C. Xavier, Rodrigo G. Pereira

Published May 16, 2016• 7 citations
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Abstract

We study the influence of reflective boundaries on time-dependent responses of one-dimensional quantum fluids at zero temperature beyond the low-energy approximation. Our analysis is based on an extension of effective mobile impurity models for nonlinear Luttinger liquids to the case of open boundary conditions. For integrable models, we show that boundary autocorrelations oscillate as a function of time with the same frequency as the corresponding bulk autocorrelations. This frequency can be identified as the band edge of elementary excitations. The amplitude of the oscillations decays as a power law with distinct exponents at the boundary and in the bulk, but boundary and bulk exponents are determined by the same coupling constant in the mobile impurity model. For nonintegrable models, we argue that the power-law decay of the oscillations is generic for autocorrelations in the bulk, but turns into an exponential decay at the boundary. Moreover, there is in general a nonuniversal shift of the boundary frequency in comparison with the band edge of bulk excitations. The predictions of our effective field theory are compared with numerical results obtained by time-dependent density matrix renormalization group (tDMRG) for both integrable and nonintegrable critical spin-$S$ chains with $S=1/2$, 1, and $3/2$.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.93.195129

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Using the principles of the conformal quantum-field theory and the finite size corrections of the energy of the ground and various excited states, we calculate the boundary critical exponents of single- and multicomponent Bethe-Ansatz soluble models. The boundary critical exponents are given in terms of the dressed-charge matrix which has the same form as that of systems with periodic boundary conditions and is uniquely determined by the Bethe-ansatz equations. A Luttinger liquid with open boundaries is the effective low-energy theory of these models. As applications of the theory, the Friedel oscillations due to the boundaries and the tunneling conductance through a barrier are also calculated. The tunneling conductance is determined by a nonuniversal boundary exponent which governs its power law dependence on temperature and frequency. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
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