Orthogonality catastrophe and shock waves in a nonequilibrium Fermi gas |
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Authors: | Bettelheim E Abanov A G Wiegmann P |
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Affiliation: | James Frank Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. |
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Abstract: | A semiclassical wave packet propagating in a dissipationless Fermi gas inevitably enters a "gradient catastrophe" regime, where an initially smooth front develops large gradients and undergoes a dramatic shock-wave phenomenon. The nonlinear effects in electronic transport are due to the curvature of the electronic spectrum at the Fermi surface. They can be probed by a sudden switching of a local potential. In equilibrium, this process produces a large number of particle-hole pairs, a phenomenon closely related to the orthogonality catastrophe. We study a generalization of this phenomenon to the nonequilibrium regime and show how the orthogonality catastrophe cures the gradient catastrophe, by providing a dispersive regularization mechanism. |
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