Friedel oscillations and dynamical density of states of an inhomogeneous Luttinger liquid

• Published in: Physica scripta 2020-07, Vol.95 (7), p.75710
• Main Authors: Das, Joy Prakash, Chowdhury, Chandramouli, Setlur, Girish S
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: bosonization; density of states; friedel oscillations; luttinger liquid
• ISSN: 0031-8949; 1402-4896
• DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/ab957f

In this work, the four-point Green functions relevant to the study of Friedel oscillations are calculated for a Luttinger liquid (LL) with a cluster of impurities around an origin using the recently developed non-chiral bosonization technique (NCBT). Analytical expressions are obtained for the most singular part of the envelope of the oscillatory part of the local density in the form of power laws, providing closed expressions for the governing exponents. A comparison is done with the work of Egger and Grabert and an exact match of the exponent is obtained both for points near and far from the impurity. The two-point functions (most singular part) obtained using the same method are used to calculate the dynamical density of states (DDOS), which exhibits a power law in energy and closed analytical expressions for the DDOS exponent is calculated. These results interpolates between the weak barrier and weak link cases which are typically studied in the literature. The dependence of the DDOS on the nature of interactions and the strength of the impurity clusters are highlighted. Finally, the results of DDOS are favorably compared with existing literature such as density of states far away and near the impurity. We also compare with the often studied special case when the Luttinger parameter g = 1/2 and find agreement with our results for strong barriers.