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Conductivity of weakly disordered metals close to a "ferromagnetic" quantum critical point

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-03-28 v3

Abstract

We calculate analytically the conductivity of weakly disordered metals close to a "ferromagnetic" quantum critical point in the low temperature regime. Ferromagnetic in the sense that the effective carrier potential V(q,ω)V(q,\omega), due to critical fluctuations, is peaked at zero momentum q=0q=0. Vertex corrections, due to both critical fluctuations and impurity scattering, are explicitly considered. We find that only the vertex corrections due to impurity scattering, combined with the self-energy, generate appreciable effects as a function of the temperature TT and the control parameter aa, which measures the proximity to the critical point. Our results are consistent with resistivity experiments in several materials displaying typical Fermi liquid behavior, but with a diverging prefactor of the T2T^2 term for small aa.

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@article{arxiv.1605.06129,
  title  = {Conductivity of weakly disordered metals close to a "ferromagnetic" quantum critical point},
  author = {George Kastrinakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06129},
  year   = {2018}
}

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