Topological Excitations of One-Dimensional Correlated Electron Systems

Details Topological Excitations of One-Dimensional Correlated Electron Systems Topological Excitations of One-Dimensional Correlated Electron Systems

1998-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808205v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

5 pages. And we are not only splitting points

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1752

Properties of low-energy excitations in one-dimensional superconductors and density-wave systems are examined by the bosonization technique. In addition to the usual spin and charge quantum numbers, a new, independently measurable attribute is introduced to describe elementary, low-energy excitations. It can be defined as a number w which determines, in multiple of $\pi$, how many times the phase of the order parameter winds as an excitation is transposed from far left to far right. The winding number is zero for electrons and holes with conventional quantum numbers, but it acquires a nontrivial value w=1 for neutral spin-1/2 excitations and for spinless excitations with a unit electron charge. It may even be irrational, if the charge is irrational. Thus, these excitations are topological, and they can be viewed as composite particles made of spin or charge degrees of freedom and dressed by kinks in the order parameter.

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