AC-conductance of a non-local Thirring model

Full text follows: In recent years renewed interest has arisen in the study of low dimensional field theories. In particular, research on the one dimensional (1-d) fermionic gas has been very active, mainly due to the actual nano-fabrication of the so called quantum wires and their relevance for low dimensional condensed matter physics as, for instance, the quantum Hall effect and high-Tc superconductivity. Experimental and theoretical investigations of the AC-transport phenomena in nano-structures are of profound scientific interest since they provide insight into the behavior of quantum systems. In this frame, we consider a field theoretical approach that can be used to describe a system of 1-d strongly correlated particles in the low transferred momentum limit. We study a non-local and non-covariant version of the Thirring model where the fermionic densities and currents are coupled through bilocal, distance-dependent potentials which describe the forward scattering processes. We apply the functional bosonization formalism, a very useful technique to understand the non-perturbative regime of strongly correlated one-dimensional fermionic systems, to this non local Thirring like model (NLTM). We are interesting in the transport properties of the system, in particular in the AC-conductance. To this end, we consider a NLTM in the presence of an external electromagnetic field. We obtain the AC-conductance of the model in terms of non-local potentials used to describe the interactions between fermionic currents. We also analyze the transport properties in the case in which weak couplings between fermionic currents and localized impurities are taken into account. (author)