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Nonlinear Luttinger liquid: Exact result for the Green function in terms of the fourth Painlev\'e transcendent

Quantum Gases 2018-04-20 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that exact time dependent single particle Green function in the Imambekov-Glazman theory of nonlinear Luttinger liquids can be written, for any value of the Luttinger parameter, in terms of a particular solution of the Painlev\'e IV equation. Our expression for the Green function has a form analogous to the celebrated Tracy-Widom result connecting the Airy kernel with Painlev\'e II. The asymptotic power law of the exact solution as a function of a single scaling variable x/tx/\sqrt{t} agrees with the mobile impurity results. The full shape of the Green function in the thermodynamic limit is recovered with arbitrary precision via a simple numerical integration of a nonlinear ODE.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08702,
  title  = {Nonlinear Luttinger liquid: Exact result for the Green function in terms of the fourth Painlev\'e transcendent},
  author = {Tom Price and D. L. Kovrizhin and Austen Lamacraft},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08702},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure. Final version accepted by SciPost