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1Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We study inhomogeneous 1+1-dimensional quantum many-body systems described by Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid theory with general propagation velocity and Luttinger parameter varying smoothly in space, equivalent to an inhomogeneous compactification radius for free boson conformal field theory. This model appears prominently in low-energy descriptions, including for trapped ultracold atoms, while here we present an application to quantum Hall edges with inhomogeneous interactions. The dynamics is shown to be governed by a pair of coupled continuity equations identical to inhomogeneous Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations with a local gap and solved by analytical means. We obtain their exact Green's functions and scattering matrix using a Magnus expansion, which generalize previous results for conformal interfaces and quantum wires coupled to leads. Our results explicitly describe the late-time evolution following quantum quenches, including inhomogeneous interaction quenches, and Andreev reflections between coupled quantum Hall edges, revealing remarkably universal dependence on details at stationarity or at late times out of equilibrium.
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