Drude conductivity of a granular metal

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2020.168170zbMATH Open1435.82035OpenAlexW3015343795MaRDI QIDQ778486FDOQ778486

Authors David T. S. Perkins, Robert A. Smith

Publication date 2 July 2020

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07955

zbMATH Keywords

electronic transportdiagrammatic quantum field theorygranular metals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Statistical mechanics of metals (82D35) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We present a complete derivation of the granular analogue to Drude conductivity using diagrammatic methods. The convergence issues arising when changing the order of momentum and frequency summation are more severe than in the homogeneous case. This is because there are now two momentum sums rather than one, due to the intragrain momentum scrambling in tunnelling events. By careful analytic continuation of the frequency sum, and use of integration by parts, we prove that the system is in the normal (non-superconducting) state, and derive the formula for the granular Drude conductivity expected from Einstein's relation and Fermi's golden rule. We also show that naively performing the momentum sums first gives the correct result, provided that we interpret a divergent frequency sum by analytic continuation using the Hurwitz zeta function.

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