Orthogonality catastrophe beyond bosonization from post-selection
Abstract: We show that the dynamics induced by post-selected measurements can serve as a controlled route to access physical processes beyond the boundaries of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid physics. We consider a one-dimensional fermionic wire whose dynamics results from a sequence of weak measurements of the fermionic density at a given site, interspersed with unitary hopping dynamics. This realizes a non-Hermitian variant of the celebrated instance of a local scatterer in a fermionic system and its ensuing orthogonality catastrophe. We observe a distinct crossover in the system's time evolution as a function of the fermion density. In the high-density regime, reminiscent of the Hermitian case, a bosonized version of the model properly describes the dynamics while, as we delve into the low-density regime, the validity of bosonization breaks down, giving rise to irreversible behavior. Notably, this crossover from reversible to irreversible dynamics is non-perturbative in the measurement rate and can manifest itself even with relatively shallow measurement rates, provided that the system's density remains below the crossover threshold. Our results render a conceptually transparent model for exploring non-perturbative effects beyond bosonization, which could be used as a stepping stone to explore novel routes for the control of non-linear dynamics in low-dimensional quantum systems.
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