English

Damping effects and the metal-insulator transition in the two-dimensional electron gas

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

The damping of single-particle degrees of freedom in strongly correlated two-dimensional Fermi systems is analyzed. Suppression of the scattering amplitude due to the damping effects is shown to play a key role in preserving the validity of the Landau-Migdal quasiparticle picture in a region of a phase transition, associated with the divergence of the quasiparticle effective mass. The results of the analysis are applied to elucidate the behavior of the conductivity σ(T)\sigma(T) of the two-dimensional dilute electron gas in the density region where it undergoes a metal-insulator transition.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0501427,
  title  = {Damping effects and the metal-insulator transition in the two-dimensional electron gas},
  author = {V. A. Khodel and M. V. Zverev and J. W. Clark},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0501427},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 6 figures. Improved and slightly extended version: new paragraph about Hall effect + new Fig.6