Theory of Interacting Bloch Electrons in a Magnetic Field

DOI10.1143/JPSJ.74.2813zbMATH Open1084.82015arXivcond-mat/0510381OpenAlexW1978132313MaRDI QIDQ3374558FDOQ3374558

Authors: Takafumi Kita, Masao Arai 

Publication date: 9 March 2006

Published in: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study interacting electrons in a periodic potential and a uniform magnetic field $$ taking the spin-orbit interaction into account. We first establish a perturbation expansion for those electrons with respect to the Bloch states in zero field. It is shown that the expansion can be performed with the zero-field Feynman diagrams of satisfying the momentum and energy conservation laws. We thereby clarify the structures of the self-energy and the thermodynamic potential in a finite magnetic field. We also provide a prescription of calculating the electronic structure in a finite magnetic field within the density functional theory starting from the zero-field energy-band structure. On the basis of these formulations, we derive explicit expressions for the magnetic susceptibility of $$ at various approximation levels on the interaction, particularly within the density functional theory, which include the result of Roth [J. Phys. Chem. Solids {�f 23} (1962) 433] as the non-interacting limit. We finally study the de Haas-van Alphen oscillation in metals to show that quasiparticles at the Fermi level with the many-body effective mass are directly relevant to the phenomenon. The present argument may be more transparent than that by Luttinger [Phys. Rev. {�f 121} (1961) 1251] of using the gauge invariance and has an advantage that the change of the band structure with the field may be incorporated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510381

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zbMATH Keywords

Bloch electrons, magnetic field, correlation effects, magnetic susceptibility, de Haas-van Alphen effect, density functional theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

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