Luttinger Liquid State with Effective Attractive Hare-Core Interaction

TL;DR

This paper introduces an exactly solvable zig-zag ladder model of spinless fermions with effective attractive interactions, revealing a new phase with spatially separated species and analyzing critical behavior via Bethe ansatz and conformal field theory.

Contribution

It presents a novel exactly solvable model of fermions with effective attractive interactions and detailed phase diagram analysis.

Findings

Identification of a new phase with spatially separated fermion species

Calculation of critical exponents for correlation functions

Discovery of a magnetization jump of 1/3 at zero magnetic field

Abstract

An exact solvable 'zig-zag' ladder model of degenerated spinless fermions is proposed and solved exactly by the means of the Bethe ansatz. An effective attractive hard-core interaction and direct Coulomb repulsion of fermions on the nearest-neighbor sites of different chains induce a new phase state of the ladder. We give a detailed analysis of the exact phase diagram at zero temperature, that is characterized by two phases at the filling exceeding 2/3: itinerant and 'frozen' fermions, for which two different species reside in spatially separate regions. The critical exponents describing asymptotic behavior of the correlation functions are calculated using the Bethe ansatz and conformal field theory. It is shown also, that the density of the magnetization of the corresponding zig-zag spin-1/2 ladder has a jump equal to 1/3 at the magnetic field equal to zero.