Bosonization

introduction

• Bosonization is a nonperturbative method
• Bosonization is a method for translating a fermionic theory into a bosonic theory, and eventually retranslating part of the latter into a new fermionic language (cf. the Luther-Emery model or the use of Majorana fermions).
• This translation process is exact in the continuum limit, but does not warrant an exact solution of the model, except in a few exceptional cases (e.g. the TL model).
• For the rest, one must rely on renormalization-group analyses, which generally complement bosonization.

 

Tomonaga-Luttinger model

• The Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) model, a continuum theory of interacting fermions, can be translated into a theory of noninteracting bosons and solved exactly

 

 

Thirring model

• Thirring model

 

 

CFT and bosonization

• The intimate relation between CFT and the conventional bosonization had became manifest when Dotsenko and Fateev represented the CFT correlation functions in terms of correlators of bosonic exponents (1984)

 

 

history

• http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=tl:1&q=

 

 

 

 

encyclopedia

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosonization

 

books

• Bosonization and Strongly Correlated Systems
• http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/2436.html

expositions

• Bosonization and strongly correlated systems
• A few aspects of bosonization in light front field theory
• http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=12&ved=0CCIQFjABOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.web.psi.ch%2Fmudry%2FLECTURES_NOTES%2FSPRING10%2Flecture13nup.ps&rct=j&q=bosonization%20massive%20Thirring%20model&ei=lacDTr6WH4jCsAOL7ODoDQ&usg=AFQjCNH-Nz2ksruq-_2OrpT_LlA1do30EA&sig2=FrEt3dJxzpgnD0vj15t3fQ&cad=rja
• Introduction to bosonization
• Rao, Sumathi, and Diptiman Sen. ‘An Introduction to Bosonization and Aome of Its Applications’. arXiv:cond-mat/0005492, 29 May 2000. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005492.
• Sénéchal, D. ‘An Introduction to Bosonization’. arXiv:cond-mat/9908262, 18 August 1999. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908262.
• Von Delft, Jan, and Herbert Schoeller. ‘Bosonization for Beginners --- Refermionization for Experts’. Annalen Der Physik 7, no. 4 (November 1998): 225–305. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3889(199811)7:4<225::AID-ANDP225>3.0.CO;2-L.