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Form factors approach to current correlations in one dimensional systems with impurities

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show how to compute analytically time and space dependent correlations in one dimensional quantum integrable systems with an impurity. Our approach is based on a description of these systems in terms of massless scattering of quasiparticles. Correlators follow then from matrix elements of local operators between multiparticle states, the ``massless form factors''. Although an infinite sum of these form factors has to be considered in principle, we find that for current, spin, and energy operators, only a few (typically two or three) are necessary to obtain an accuracy of more than 1%1\%, for {\bf arbitrary coupling strength}, that is all the way from short to large distances. As examples we compute, at zero temperature, the frequency dependent conductance in a Luttinger liquid with impurity, the spectral function in the double well problem of dissipative quantum mechanics and part of the space dependent succeptibility in the Kondo model .

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9603043,
  title  = {Form factors approach to current correlations in one dimensional systems with impurities},
  author = {F. Lesage and H. Saleur and S. Skorik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9603043},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

2 References corrected, three added. Discussion of the Screening cloud modified. 42 pages, harvmac, epsf and 6 figures

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