On the dynamics of free-fermionic tau-functions at finite temperature
Daniel Chernowitz, Oleksandr Gamayun
SciPost Phys. Core 5, 006 (2022) · published 31 January 2022
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.5.1.006
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Abstract
In this work we explore an instance of the $\tau$-function of vertex type operators, specified in terms of a constant phase shift in a free-fermionic basis. From the physical point of view this $\tau$-function has multiple interpretations: as a correlator of Jordan-Wigner strings, a Loschmidt Echo in the Aharonov-Bohm effect, or the generating function of the local densities in the Tonks-Girardeau gas. We present the $\tau$-function as a form-factors series and tackle it from four vantage points: (i) we perform an exact summation and express it in terms of a Fredholm determinant in the thermodynamic limit, (ii) we use bosonization techniques to perform partial summations of soft modes around the Fermi surface to acquire the scaling at zero temperature, (iii) we derive large space and time asymptotic behavior for the thermal Fredholm determinant by relating it to effective form-factors with an asymptotically similar kernel, and (iv) we identify and sum the important basis elements directly through a tailor-made numerical algorithm for finite-entropy states in a free-fermionic Hilbert space. All methods confirm each other. We find that, in addition to the exponential decay in the finite-temperature case the dynamic correlation functions exhibit an extra power law in time, universal over any distribution and time scale.
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Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam [IoP, UvA]
- 2 Uniwersytet Warszawski / University of Warsaw [UW]
- 3 Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics [BITP]