The Fermi edge singularity and boundary condition changing operators

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/16/007zbMATH Open0850.82051arXivcond-mat/9405057OpenAlexW3099894738MaRDI QIDQ4862015FDOQ4862015

Ian Affleck, A. Ludwig

Publication date: 12 February 1996

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The boundary conformal field theory approach to quantum impurity problems is used to study the Fermi edge singularity, occuring in the X-ray adsorption probablility. The deep-hole creation operator, in the effective low-energy theory, changes the boundary condition on the conduction electrons. By a conformal mapping, the dimension of such an operator is related to the groundstate energy for a finite system with different boundary conditions at the two ends. The Fermi edge singularity is solved using this method, for the Luttinger liquid including back-scattering and for the multi-channel Kondo problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9405057

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15)

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