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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 226401 (2004) [4 pages]

Green's Function for Magnetically Incoherent Interacting Electrons in One Dimension

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Gregory A. Fiete1,2,3 and Leon Balents3
1Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
2Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
3Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA

Received 6 April 2004; published 22 November 2004

Using a path integral approach and bosonization, we calculate the low-energy asymptotics of the one particle Green’s function for a “magnetically incoherent” one dimensional strongly interacting electron gas at temperatures much greater than the typical exchange energy but much lower than the Fermi energy. The Green’s function exhibits features reminiscent of spin-charge separation, with exponential spatial decay and scaling behavior with interaction dependent anomalous exponents inconsistent with any unitary conformal field theory. We compute the tunneling density of states at low energies and find that it is a power law in energy with exponent 1/(4g)-1, where g is the Luttinger interaction parameter in the charge sector. The underlying physics is made transparent by the simplicity of the approach. Our results generalize those of Cheianov and Zvonarev [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 176401 (2004)].

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.226401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.226401
PACS:
71.10.Pm, 71.27.+a, 73.21.–b