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On the fermion-boson correspondence for correlation functions of disorder operators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1 Condensed Matter

Abstract

When a quantum field theory possesses topological excitations in a phase with spontaneously broken symmetry, these are created by operators which are non-local with respect to the order parameter. Due to non-locality, such disorder operators have non-trivial correlation functions even in free massive theories. In two dimensions, these correlators can be expressed exactly in terms of solutions of non-linear differential equations. The correlation functions of the one-parameter family of non-local operators in the free charged bosonic and fermionic models are the inverse of each other. We point out a simple derivation of this correspondence within the form factor approach

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0203063,
  title  = {On the fermion-boson correspondence for correlation functions of disorder operators},
  author = {G. Delfino and P. Grinza and G. Mussardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0203063},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, latex