Introduction to Bosonization

Journal club talk by Shunsuke Furukawa on August 19, 2010

References:
D. Senechal, cond-mat/9908262
F. D. M. Haldane, Phys. Rev. B 25, 4925 (1982).
K. Nomura and K. Okamoto, J. Phys. A 27, 5773 (1994)

Furukawa-san first introduced the idea of bosonization, broadly discussing notions of effective field theory and Luttinger parameter. He then demonstrated the correspondence between a free-fermion-model and a 1d bosonic field theory.
Coming up in Part II: Applications to interacting fermions and spin chains.