INFLUENCE FUNCTIONAL FOR DECOHERENCE OF INTERACTING ELECTRONS IN DISORDERED CONDUCTORS

DOI10.1142/S0217979208039083zbMATH Open1162.82024arXivcond-mat/0510563MaRDI QIDQ3602522FDOQ3602522

Authors: Jan von Delft 

Publication date: 12 February 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We have rederived the controversial influence functional approach of Golubev and Zaikin (GZ) for interacting electrons in disordered metals in a way that allows us to show its equivalence, before disorder averaging, to diagrammatic Keldysh perturbation theory. By representing a certain Pauli factor (1-2 rho) occuring in GZ's effective action in the frequency domain (instead of the time domain, as GZ do), we also achieve a more accurate treatment of recoil effects. With this change, GZ's approach reproduces, in a remarkably simple way, the standard, generally accepted result for the decoherence rate. -- The main text and appendix A.1 to A.3 of the present paper have already been published previously; for convenience, they are included here again, together with five additional, lengthy appendices containing relevant technical details.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510563

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zbMATH Keywords

disorderdecoherenceweak localization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Statistical mechanics of metals (82D35) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

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• Interaction effects and phase relaxation in disordered systems

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