Interaction effects and phase relaxation in disordered systems

DOI10.1088/0959-7174/9/2/308MaRDI QIDQ4269661zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor L. Aleiner, Boris L. Altshuler, M. E. Gershenson

Publication date 1999

Published in Waves in Random and Complex Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808053

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: This paper is intended to demonstrate that there is no need to revise the existing theory of the transport properties of disordered conductors in the so-called weak localization regime. In particular, we demonstrate explicitly that recent attempts to justify theoretically that the dephasing rate (extracted from the magnetoresistance) remains finite at zero temperature are based on the profoundly incorrect calculation. This demonstration is based on a straightforward evaluation of the effect of the electron-electron interaction on the weak localization correction to the conductivity of disordered metals. Using well-controlled perturbation theory with the inverse conductance $g$ as the small parameter, we show that this effect consists of two contributions. First contribution comes from the processes with energy transfer smaller than the temperature. This contribution is responsible for setting the energy scale for the magnetoresistance. The second contribution originates from the virtual processes with energy transfer larger than the temperature. It is shown that the latter processes have nothing to do with the dephasing, but rather manifest the second order (in $1/g$) correction to the conductance. This correction is calculated for the first time. The paper also contains a brief review of the existing experiments on the dephasing of electrons in disordered conductors and an extended qualitative discussion of the quantum corrections to the conductivity and to the density of electronic states in the weak localization regime.

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