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arXiv:2110.08194 · SciPost Physics Core

On the dynamics of free-fermionic tau-functions at finite temperature

Daniel Chernowitz, Oleksandr Gamayun

Published Jan 31, 2022• 14 citations

Abstract

In this work we explore an instance of the \tau τ -function of vertex type operators, specified in terms of a constant phase shift in a free-fermionic basis. From the physical point of view this \tau τ -function has multiple interpretations: as a correlator of Jordan-Wigner strings, a Loschmidt Echo in the Aharonov-Bohm effect, or the generating function of the local densities in the Tonks-Girardeau gas. We present the \tau τ -function as a form-factors series and tackle it from four vantage points: (i) we perform an exact summation and express it in terms of a Fredholm determinant in the thermodynamic limit, (ii) we use bosonization techniques to perform partial summations of soft modes around the Fermi surface to acquire the scaling at zero temperature, (iii) we derive large space and time asymptotic behavior for the thermal Fredholm determinant by relating it to effective form-factors with an asymptotically similar kernel, and (iv) we identify and sum the important basis elements directly through a tailor-made numerical algorithm for finite-entropy states in a free-fermionic Hilbert space. All methods confirm each other. We find that, in addition to the exponential decay in the finite-temperature case the dynamic correlation functions exhibit an extra power law in time, universal over any distribution and time scale.

DOI: 10.21468/scipostphyscore.5.1.006

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We study thermal correlation functions of the one-dimensional impenetrable lattice anyons. These correlation functions can be presented as a difference of two Fredholm determinants. To describe the large-time and long-distance behavior of these objects, we use the effective form-factor approach. The asymptotic behavior is different in the spacelike and timelike regions. In particular, in the timelike region we observe the additional power factor on top of the exponential decay. We argue that this result is universal as it is related to the discontinuous behavior of the phase shift function of the effective fermions. At particular values of the anyonic parameter, we recover the asymptotics of the spin-spin correlation functions in the

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