The exponent in the orthogonality catastrophe for Fermi gases

We quantify the asymptotic vanishing of the ground-state overlap of two non-interacting Fermi gases in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space in the thermodynamic limit. Given two one-particle Schr\"odinger operators in finite-volume which differ by a compactly supported bounded potential, we prove a power-law upper bound on the ground-state overlap of the corresponding non-interacting $N$-particle systems. We interpret the decay exponent $\gamma$ in terms of scattering theory and find $\gamma = \pi^{-2}{\lVert\arcsin{\lvert T_E/2\rvert}\rVert}_{\mathrm{HS}}^2$, where $T_E$ is the transition matrix at the Fermi energy $E$. This exponent reduces to the one predicted by Anderson [Phys. Rev. 164, 352-359 (1967)] for the exact asymptotics in the special case of a repulsive point-like perturbation.Comment: Version as to appear in J. Spectr. Theory, References update

A Szeg\H{o} Limit Theorem Related to the Hilbert Matrix

The Szeg\H{o} limit theorem by Fedele and Gebert for matrices of the type identity minus Hankel matrix is proved for the special case $1-\frac{\beta}{\pi}H_{N,\alpha}$ where $H_{N,\alpha}$ is the $N\times N$-Hilbert matrix, $\alpha\geq\frac{1}{2}$, and $\beta\in\mathbf{C}$. The proof uses operator theoretic tools and a reduction to the classical Kac--Akhiezer theorem for the Carleman operator. Thereby, the validity of the theorem for this special Hankel matrix can be extended from $|\beta|<1$ to $\beta\in\mathbf{C}\setminus ]1,\infty[$. The bound on the correction term is improved to $O(1)$ instead of $o(\ln(N))$ for $\beta\in\mathbf{C}\setminus [1,\infty[$. The limit case $\beta=1$ is derived directly from the asymptotics for general $\beta$