Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe for one-dimensional systems (Q742786): Difference between revisions

In [``Infrared catastrophe in Fermi gases with local scattering potentials'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 18, No. 24, 1049--1051 (1967; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.18.1049})] \textit{P. W. Anderson} studied the transition probability between the ground state of \(N\) free fermions and the ground state of \(N\) fermions subject to an exterior (radially symmetric) potential in \(\mathbb R^3\). The transition probability, studied by Anderson is given through a scalar product. He proved that this probability decays like \(N^{-\gamma}\) with some explcit \(\gamma>0\) as \(N\to \infty\). This property is known as Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe. In the pape under review a rigorous analysis of Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe is given for one-dimensional systems. The leading asymptotics of the so-called Anderson integral are studied in the thermodynamic limit for one-dimensional, non- relativistic, spin-less fermions. This implied a lower and an upper bound on the exponent in Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe.