Gauge-invariant response functions in algebraic Fermi liquids

Gauge-invariant response functions of fermions coupled to a gauge field.

We study a model of fermions interacting with a gauge field and calculate gauge-invariant two-particle Green’s functions or response functions. The leading singular contributions from the self-energy correction are found to be cancelled by those from the vertex correction for small q and Ω. As a result, the remaining contributions are not singular enough to change the leading order results of t...

Fermi Liquids and Luttinger Liquids

Bosonization of Fermi Liquids

We consider systems of non-relativistic, interacting electrons at finite density and zero temperature in d = 2, 3, ... dimensions. Our main concern is to characterize those systems that, under the renormalization flow, are driven away from the Landau Fermi liquid (LFL) renormalization group fixed point. We are especially interested in understanding under what circumstances such a system is a Ma...

Bosonization of Fermi liquids.

We bosonize a Fermi liquid in any number of dimensions in the limit of long wavelengths. From the bosons we construct a set of coherent states which are related with the displacement of the Fermi surface due to particle-hole excitations. We show that an interacting hamiltonian in terms of the original fermions is quadratic in the bosons. We obtain a path integral representation for the generati...

One-dimensional Fermi liquids

We review the progress in the theory of one-dimensional (1D) Fermi liquids which has occurred over the past decade. The usual Fermi liquid theory based on a quasi-particle picture, breaks down in one dimension because of the Peierls divergence in the particlehole bubble producing anomalous dimensions of operators, and because of charge-spin separation. Both are related to the importance of scat...