One-Dimensional Fermions with neither Luttinger-Liquid nor Fermi-Liquid Behavior

A. V. Rozhkov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 106403 – Published 10 March 2014
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Abstract

It is well known that, generically, one-dimensional interacting fermions cannot be described in terms of a Fermi liquid. Instead, they present a different phenomenology, that of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid: the Landau quasiparticles are ill defined, and the fermion occupation number is continuous at the Fermi energy. We demonstrate that suitable fine tuning of the interaction between fermions can stabilize a peculiar state of one-dimensional matter, which is dissimilar to both Tomonaga-Luttinger and Fermi liquids. We propose to call this state a quasi-Fermi liquid. Technically speaking, such a liquid exists only when the fermion interaction is irrelevant (in the renormalization group sense). The quasi-Fermi liquid exhibits the properties of both a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid and a Fermi liquid. Similar to a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, no finite-momentum quasiparticles are supported by the quasi-Fermi liquid; on the other hand, its fermion occupation number demonstrates a finite discontinuity at the Fermi energy, which is a hallmark feature of a Fermi liquid. A possible realization of the quasi-Fermi liquid with the help of cold atoms in an optical trap is discussed.

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  • Received 10 November 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.106403

© 2014 American Physical Society

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A. V. Rozhkov

  • Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics of Russian Academy of Science, ul. Izhorskaya 13, Moscow, 125412, Russia and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskiy per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, 141700, Russia

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Vol. 112, Iss. 10 — 14 March 2014

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