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Coupled electron-impurity and electron-phonon systems as trivial non-Fermi liquids

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

We consider an electron gas, both in two (2D) and three (3D) dimensions, interacting with quenched impurities and phonons within leading order finite-temperature many body perturbation theories, calculating the electron self-energies, spectral functions, and momentum distribution functions at finite temperatures. The resultant spectral function is in general highly non-Lorentzian, indicating that the system is not a Fermi liquid in the usual sense. The calculated momentum distribution function cannot be approximated by a Fermi function at any temperature, providing a rather simple example of a non-Fermi liquid with well-understood properties.

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@article{arxiv.1908.08957,
  title  = {Coupled electron-impurity and electron-phonon systems as trivial non-Fermi liquids},
  author = {Donovan Buterakos and Sankar Das Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08957},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages