Local Perturbation in a Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid at g=1/2

Abstract

The orthogonality catastrophe in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid with an impurity is reexamined for the case when the interaction parameter or the dimensionless conductance is g=1/2. By transforming bosons back to fermions, the Hamiltonian is reduced to a quadratic form, which allows for explicit calculation of the overlap integral and the local density of states at the defect site. The exponent of the orthogonality catastrophe due to a backward scattering center is found to be 1/8, in agreement with previous studies using different approaches. The time-dependence of the core-hole Green's function is computed numerically, which shows a clear crossover from a non-universal short-time behavior to a universal long-time behavior. The local density of states vanishes linearly in the low-energy limit at g=1/2.