It is shown that the construction introduced recently by Setlur and Chang [Phys. Rev. B 57, 15 144 (1998)] for generalized Fermi sea-displacement operators contains undefined elements, which may lead to divergencies, and, in fact, these operators are not bosonic operators, in contrast to what these authors claim.
Based on a class of exactly solvable models of interacting Bose and Fermi liquids, we compute the single-particle propagators of these systems exactly for all wavelengths and energies and in any number of spatial dimensions. The field operators are expressed in terms of Bose fields that correspond to displacements of the condensate in the Bose case and displacements of the Fermi sea in the Fermi case. Unlike some of the previous attempts, the present attempt reduces the answer for the spectral function in any dimension in both Fermi and Bose systems to quadratures. It is shown that when only the lowest-order sea-displacement terms are included, is the random-phase approximation in its many guises recovered in the Fermi case, and Bogoliubov's theory in the Bose case. The momentum distribution is evaluated using two different approaches, exact diagonalization and the equation of motion approach; the novelty being, of course, the exact computation of single-particle properties including short-wavelength behavior.
In this article, we combine the ideas introduced by us earlier in various proportions to arrive at a simple and yet powerful means of studying single-particle properties of homogeneous Fermi systems in detail without making assumptions regarding the validity or otherwise of Fermi-liquid theory. Novelties include the exact forms of the momentum distribution and spectral functions in the intermediate density regime and a dielectric function that is sensitive to significant qualitative changes in single-particle properties. This time, care is taken to include the particle-hole mode by interpreting the sum over modes as a weighted sum with the dynamical structure factor appearing as the weight.
In a recent Letter (Phys. Rev. lett. 105, 195301 (2010)), Song et al. introduced a new variational approach to treat strong attractive boson-fermion (BF) correlations in BF atomic mixtures. The proposed theory predicts a first order phase transition to a condensate of composite BF pairs with center of mass momentum Q=0 as opposed to a composite fermionic molecular Fermi gas. We show in this comment that their approach is incorrect and moreover, by resorting to an exactly solvable model we demonstrate that there cannot be more than one correlated Q=0 BF pair in complete contradiction with their conclusions.