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Al'tshuler-Aronov correction to the conductivity of a large metallic square network

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2008-04-10 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We consider the correction Δσee\Delta\sigma_\mathrm{ee} due to electron-electron interaction to the conductivity of a weakly disordered metal (Al'tshuler-Aronov correction). The correction is related to the spectral determinant of the Laplace operator. The case of a large square metallic network is considered. The variation of Δσee(LT)\Delta\sigma_\mathrm{ee}(L_T) as a function of the thermal length LTL_T is found very similar to the variation of the weak localization ΔσWL(Lϕ)\Delta\sigma_\mathrm{WL}(L_\phi) as a function of the phase coherence length. Our result for Δσee\Delta\sigma_\mathrm{ee} interpolates between the known 1d and 2d results, but the interaction parameter entering the expression of Δσee\Delta\sigma_\mathrm{ee} keeps a 1d behaviour. Quite surprisingly, the result is very close to the 2d logarithmic behaviour already for LTa/2L_T\sim{a}/2, where aa is the lattice parameter.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0741,
  title  = {Al'tshuler-Aronov correction to the conductivity of a large metallic square network},
  author = {Christophe Texier and Gilles Montambaux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0741},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages, RevTex4, 3 eps figures