Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics
Bosonisation without bosons in the one-dimensional electron gas
G. Grinstein, Petter Minnhagen, Anders Rosengren
Abstract
The model one-dimensional electron gas, defined by a particular ultraviolet cut-off procedure, is shown to decompose into two parts, a Tomonaga-Luttinger model and a model equivalent to the two-dimensional Coulomb gas. For a particular value of one of its coupling constants, this latter model is shown to be equivalent to a model of free fermions. These results, familiar features of the boson representation of the one-dimensional electron gas, are here derived entirely within the context of fermions. The cut-off procedure used differs from those normally considered in the literature. The significance of these differences is discussed.