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An Introduction to Bosonization and Some of its Applications

Sumathi Rao, Diptiman Sen

Published Apr 24, 2019• 0 citations
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This chapter discusses the technique of bosonization for studying systems of interacting fermions in one dimension. It reviews the low-energy properties of Fermi and Luttinger liquids and presents some of the relations between bosonic and fermionic operators in one dimension. The chapter explores these relations to calculate the correlation functions and the renormalization group properties of various operators for a system of spinless fermions. It explains the methods of bosonization to study the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin 1/2 chain, the Hubbard model in one dimension and transport in clean quantum wires and in the presence of isolated impurities. The basic idea of bosonization is that there are certain objects which can be calculated either in a fermionic theory or in a bosonic theory, and the two calculations give the same answer. The chapter also discusses another application of bosonization, which is to study transport, in particular the DC conductivity in one-dimensional wires of interacting fermions.

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10.1201/9780429187520-6

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This chapter discusses the technique of bosonization for studying systems of interacting fermions in one dimension. It reviews the low-energy properties of Fermi and Luttinger liquids and presents some of the relations between bosonic and fermionic operators in one dimension. The chapter explores these relations to calculate the correlation functions and the renormalization group properties of various operators for a system of spinless fermions. It explains the methods of bosonization to study the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin 1/2 chain, the Hubbard model in one dimension and transport in clean quantum wires and in the presence of isolated impurities. The basic idea of bosonization is that there are certain objects which can be calculated either in a fermionic theory or in a bosonic theory, and the two calculations give the same answer. The chapter also discusses another application of bosonization, which is to study transport, in particular the DC conductivity in one-dimensional wires of interacting fermions.
We discuss the technique of bosonization for studying systems of interacting fermions in one dimension. After briefly reviewing the low-energy properties of Fermi and Luttinger liquids, we present some of the relations between bosonic and fermionic operators in one dimension. We use these relations to calculate the correlation functions and the renormalization group properties of various operators for a system of spinless fermions. We then apply the methods of bosonization to study the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin 1/2 chain, the Hubbard model in one dimension and transport in clean quantum wires and in the presence of isolated impurities.
We discuss the technique of bosonization for studying systems of interacting fermions in one dimension. After briefly reviewing the low-energy properties of Fermi and Luttinger liquids, we present some of the relations between bosonic and fermionic operators in one dimension. We use these relations to calculate the correlation functions and the renormalization group properties of various operators for a system of spinless fermions. We then apply the methods of bosonization to study the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin 1/2 chain, the Hubbard model in one dimension, and transport in clean quantum wires and in the presence of isolated impurities.
Table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Non-Fermi-liquid features of Fermi liquids: 1D physics in higher dimensions 3. Dzyaloshinskii-Larkin solution of the Tomonaga-Luttinger model 4. Renormalization group for interacting fermions 5. Single impurity in a 1D system: scattering theory for interacting electrons 6. Bosonization solution 7. Transport in quantum wires 7.1 Conductivity and conductance 7.2 Dissipation in a contactless measurement 7.3 Conductance of a wire attached to reservoirs 7.4 Spin component of the conductance 7.5 Thermal conductance: Fabry-Perrot resonances of plasmons 8. Appendices
In this thesis the method of bosonization of fermionic many-body systems in any number of dimensions is developed. After an introduction to the problem in chapter 1 and to the method of bosonization in chapter 2 (with its application to the non-interacting problem) the Fermi liquid behavior of interacting fermions in dimensions higher than one is discussed in chapter 3. In chapter 4 I rederive the well-known bosonization of the Tomonaga-Luttinger model in one dimension within the framework discussed in the preceding chapters. In chapter 5 I present the bosonization of elementary excitations of exactly solvable one dimensional systems with special emphasis on the Hubbard chain. Chapter 6 contains the conclusions.
“Bosonization” refers to the possibility of describing a theory of relativistic Dirac fermions obeying standard anticommutation rules by a boson field theory. While this may be possible in all dimensions, it has so far proved most useful in d = 1, where the bosonic version of the given fermionic theory is local and simple, and often simpler than the Fermi theory. This chapter should be viewed as a stepping stone toward a more thorough approach, for which references are given at the end. In this chapter I will set up the bosonization machine, explaining its basic logic and the dictionary for transcribing a fermionic theory to a bosonic theory. The next chapter will be devoted to applications. To my knowledge, bosonization, as described here, was first carried out by Lieb and Mattis [1] in their exact solution of the Luttinger model [2]. Later, Luther and Peschel [3] showed how to use it to find asymptotic (low momentum and energy) correlation functions for more generic interacting Fermi systems. It was independently discovered in particle physics by Coleman [4], and further developed by Mandelstam [5]. Much of what I know and use is inspired by the work of Luther and Peschel. Preamble Before getting into any details, I would first like to answer two questions. First, if bosonization applies only to relativistic Dirac fermions, why is it of any interest to condensed matter theory where relativity is not essential? Second, what is the magic by which bosonization helps us tame interacting field theories? As for the first question, there are two ways in which Dirac fermions enter condensed matter physics. The first is in the study of two-dimensional Ising models, where we have already encountered them. Recall that if we use the transfer matrix approach and convert the classical problem on an N × N lattice to a quantum problem in one dimension we end up with a 2 N -dimensional Hilbert space, with a Pauli matrix at each of N sites. The two dimensions at each site represent the twofold choice of values open to the Ising spins. Consider now a spinless fermion degree of freedom at each site. Here too we have two choices: the fermion state is occupied or empty.
The bosonization technique is useful for solving the interacting problem and for extracting a certain number of properties such as power law behavior of the correlation functions. However, this derivation is, strictly speaking, based on a linearization of the spectrum close to the Fermi energy. One can thus wonder what will remain of the results of the previous chapter when it is impossible to stay confined close to the Fermi level, for example, when the interactions become strong. In order to answer this question, it is necessary to rederive the bosonization formulas, in a more phenomenological but more general way. This chapter demonstrates that a similar concept as Fermi liquids exists in one dimension. This concept, called Luttinger liquid, encompasses most of the physics of simple one-dimensional systems and will be the starting point for the study more complex situations. The concept of Luttinger liquids is explained using very low level techniques.