Comment on "Quantum Decoherence in Disordered Mesoscopic Systems"
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-10-31 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
In a recent paper, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1074 (1998), Golubev and Zaikin (GZ) found that ``zero-point fluctuations of electrons'' contribute to the dephasing rate extracted from the magnetoresistance. As a result, the dephasing rate remains finite at zero temperature. GZ claimed that their results ``agree well with the experimental data''. We point out that the GZ results are incompatible with (i) conventional perturbation theory of the effects of interaction on weak localization (WL), and (ii) with the available experimental data. More detailed criticism of GZ findings can be found in cond-mat/9808053.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9808078,
title = {Comment on "Quantum Decoherence in Disordered Mesoscopic Systems"},
author = {I. L. Aleiner and B. L. Altshuler and M. E. Gershenson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9808078},
year = {2009}
}
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