2005/05/21 by F. D. M. Haldane · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el
published as Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course CXXI "Perspectives in Many-Particle Physics" eds. R. A. Broglia and J. R. Schrieffer (North-Holland, Amsterdam 1994) pp 5-29 · 17 pages, 0 figures; A 1993 preprint form of a published but hard-to-find article based on lectures presented at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, Italy, July 1992
arxiv created 2005/05/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
A course of four lectures given at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, Italy, July 1992, in which the underlying algebraic structure needed for bosonization of the Fermi surface in two- or three-dimensions was first described. This is an unchanged 1993 preprint version of a published but hard-to-find (and often mis-cited) 1994 article in the Varenna Summer School proceedings. The d > 1 dimensional generalization of the Kac-Moody algebra on the Fermi surface is presented, and the Gaussian reduction of the Fermi liquid to harmonic oscilator modes is derived. One-dimensional bosonization and the symmetries of spin-charge separation are also reviewed.