arXiv:cond-mat/0105012 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Spin-charge decoupling and orthofermi quantum statistics
A. K. Mishra
Abstract
Currently Gutzwiller projection technique and nested Bethe ansatz are two main methods used to handle electronic systems in the U infinity limit. We demonstrate that these two approaches describe two distinct physical systems. In the nested Bethe ansatz solutions, there is a decoupling between the spin and charge degrees of freedom. Such a decoupling is absent in the Gutzwiller projection technique. Whereas in the Gutzwiller approach, the usual antisymmetry of space and spin coordinates is maintained, we show that the Bethe ansatz wave function is compatible with a form of quantum statistics, viz., orthofermi statistics. In these statistics, the wave function is antisymmetric in spatial coordinates alone. This feature ultimately leads to spin-charge decoupling.