RPAE versus RPA for the Tomonaga model with quadratic energy dispersion

TL;DR

This paper compares RPA and RPAE methods for analyzing damping of collective modes in one-dimensional fermion systems with quadratic energy dispersion, showing RPAE provides a more accurate approach for nonlinear dispersions.

Contribution

It introduces an analytical solution for the RPAE equation in the context of quadratic dispersion, highlighting differences from RPA in non-linear cases.

Findings

RPAE improves damping analysis over RPA for quadratic dispersion.

Analytical solution of RPAE equation for specific interactions.

Qualitative differences between RPA and RPAE in non-linear dispersion cases.

Abstract

Recently the damping of the collective charge (and spin) modes of interacting fermions in one spatial dimension was studied. It results from the nonlinear correction to the energy dispersion in the vicinity of the Fermi points. To investigate the damping one has to replace the random phase approximation (RPA) bare bubble by a sum of more complicated diagrams. It is shown here that a better starting point than the bare RPA is to use the (conserving) linearized time dependent Hartree-Fock equations, i.e. to perform a random phase approximation (with) exchange (RPAE) calculation. It is shown that the RPAE equation can be solved analytically for the special form of the two-body interaction often used in the Luttinger liquid framework. While (bare) RPA and RPAE agree for the case of a strictly linear disperson there are qualitative differences for the case of the usual nonrelativistic quadratic dispersion.