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arXiv:2609.21973

Unified Field Bosonization Technique for strongly inhomogenous Luttinger Liquids

Soundarya P, Venkata Suryanarayana M, Joy Prakash Das

Published Sep 18, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduce the Unified Field Bosonization Technique (UFBT), a direct bosonization framework for strongly inhomogeneous one-dimensional Luttinger liquids (LLs) containing static impurities. UFBT incorporates impurity scattering through a symmetrized combination of bosonic phase fields and yields closed-form expressions for arbitrary N-point correlation functions for a broad class of static impurity potentials, including delta barriers, finite barriers and finite wells. The formalism requires neither renormalization-group analysis nor perturbative expansions, providing an analytical description of the inhomogeneous system at the bosonized level. The resulting correlation functions capture the leading singular contributions relevant to the present analysis. The technique is validated by recovering known limiting cases, showing agreement with the first-order perturbative expansion in the interaction strength, and demonstrating consistency with the Schwinger-Dyson equations. A key result is that the correlation function exponents remain independent of the impurity strength, while the impurity dependence is captured by the spatial structure and amplitudes of the correlation functions. The resulting correlation functions establish a foundation for analytical studies of transport, Friedel oscillations, and the local and dynamical density of states in strongly inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2609.21973

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Nonchiral bosonization (NCBT) is a nontrivial modification of the standard Fermi—Bose correspondence in one spatial dimension done to facilitate studying strongly inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids where the properties of free fermions plus the source of inhomogeneities are reproduced exactly. We introduce the NCBT formalism and discuss limit case checks, fermion commutation rules, point-splitting constraints, etc. We expand the Green’s functions obtained from NCBT in powers of the fermion—fermion interaction strength (only short-range forward scattering) and compare them with the corresponding terms obtained using standard fermionic perturbation theory. Finally, we substitute the Green’s functions obtained from NCBT in the Schwinger—Dyson equation, which is the equation of motion of the Green’s functions and serves as a nonperturbative confirmation of the method. We briefly discuss some other analytic approaches such as functional bosonization and numerical techniques like the density-matrix renormalization group, which can be used to obtain the correlation functions in one dimension.
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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.