Single-particle states, Kohn anomaly, and pairing fluctuations in one dimension

Abstract

We compute the single-particle spectral density, susceptibility near the Kohn anomaly, and pair propagator for a one-dimensional interacting-electron gas. With an attractive interaction, the pair propagator is divergent in the zero-temperature limit and the Kohn singularity is removed. For repulsive interactions, the Kohn singularity is stronger than the free-particle case and the pair propagator is finite. The low-temperature behavior of the interacting system is not consistent with the usual Ginzburg-Landau functional because the frequency, temperature, and momentum dependences are characterized by power-law behavior with the exponent dependent on the interaction strength. Similarly, the energy dependence of the single-particle spectral density obeys a power law whose exponent depends on the interaction and exhibits no quasiparticle character. Our calculations are exact for the Luttinger or Tomonaga model of the one-dimensional interacting system.