Renormalized Harmonic-Oscillator Description of Confined Electron Systems with Inverse-Square Interaction
Norio Kawakami
Abstract
An integrable model for SU(ν) electrons with inverse-square interaction is studied for the system with confining harmonic potential. We develop a new description of the spectrum based on the renormalized harmonic-oscillators which incorporate interaction effects via the repulsion of energy levels. This approach enables a systematic treatment of the excitation spectrum as well as the ground-state quantities. 1 Quantum integrable systems with inverse-square (1/x2) interaction have been studied extensively with renewed interest [1–11]. Though various models including multicomponent cases have been studied in detail for periodic boundary conditions, the energy spectrum for confined systems has not been investigated systematically so far. In fact various investigations concerning confined systems have been mainly devoted to the single-component case [1,2]. Besides interest in the integrability there have been some attempts to apply the confined models to conductance-oscillation phenomena in mesoscopic systems [12–14], in which the exact ground state has been found for the electron model [14]. It is desirable to develop systematic treatments of the energy spectrum for the class of the integrable multicomponent models with confining potential. In this letter we wish to propose a systematic description of the energy spectrum for the class of one-dimensional multicomponent inverse-square systems with harmonic confinement. The essence of the idea is that the energy spectrum is expressed in terms of the renormalized harmonic oscillators (RHO) for which the interaction effects are taken into account by the renormalized quantum numbers for oscillators. To illustrate the idea, let us start with the integrable spinless-fermion model with confining harmonic potential [1,2],