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Chiral Anomaly and Spin Gap in One-Dimensional Interacting Fermions

Condensed Matter 2009-10-22 v2

Abstract

Semiclassical approach has been developed for the one-dimensional interacting fermion systems. Starting from the incommensurate spin density wave (SDW) mean field state for the repulsive Hubbard model in 1D, the non-Abelian bosonized Lagrangian describing the spin-charge separation is obtained. The Berry phase term is derived from the chiral anomaly, and we obtain the massless Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid in the single chain case while the spin gap opens in the double-chain system. This approach offers a new method to identify the strong-coupling fixed point, and its relation to the Abelian bosonization formalism is discussed on the spin gap state. The generalization to higher dimensions is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9412003,
  title  = {Chiral Anomaly and Spin Gap in One-Dimensional Interacting Fermions},
  author = {Naoto Nagaosa and Masaki Oshikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9412003},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revised and enlarged version. 16 pages in REVTEX