title: Quantum phase transition in a 1D transport model with boson-affected hopping: Luttinger liquid versus charge-density-wave behavior.
abstract: We solve a very general two-channel fermion-boson model describing charge transport within some background medium by means of a refined pseudosite density-matrix renormalization group technique. Performing a careful finite-size scaling analysis, we determine the ground-state phase diagram and convincingly prove that the model exhibits a metal-insulator quantum phase transition for the half-filled band case. In order to characterize the metallic and insulating regimes we calculate, besides the local particle densities and fermion-boson correlation functions, the kinetic energy, the charge-structure factor, the Luttinger liquid charge exponent, and the single-particle excitation gap for a one-dimensional infinite system.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ejima
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hager
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fehske