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Dirac Impurity in a Luttinger liquid

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-04-26 v1

Abstract

We consider a linearly-dispersing quantum impurity interacting through a contact density-density term with a one-dimensional (1D) superfluid described by the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory. Using a linked cluster expansion we characterize the impurity dynamics by calculating approximate expressions for the single-particle Green's function and for the time evolution of the density profile. We show the existence of two different dynamical regimes: (i) a quasiparticle\textit{quasiparticle} regime, dominated by the presence of a finite lifetime for the host impurity, and (ii) an infrared-dominated\textit{infrared-dominated} regime, where the impurity causes a Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe of the 1D bath. We discuss the possible experimental consequences of these findings for cold atoms experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2404.16214,
  title  = {Dirac Impurity in a Luttinger liquid},
  author = {Lorenzo Gotta and Thierry Giamarchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16214},
  year   = {2024}
}

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6+7 pages, 4 figures

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