Fermi liquid behaviour in weakly disordered metals close to a quantum critical point
Abstract
We calculate analytically the low temperature quasi-particle scattering rate, the conductivity, and the specific heat in weakly disordered metals close to a quantum critical point, via the use of a proper fluctuation potential between the quasi-particles. We obtain typical Fermi liquid results proportional to and respectively, with prefactors which diverge as power laws of the control parameter upon approaching the critical point. The Kadowaki-Woods ratio is shown to be independent of (possibly times a logarithmic dependence on ) only for the case of three-dimensional ferromagnetic fluctuations. Our results are consistent with experiments on the eight materials CeCoIn, SrRuO, YbRhSi, LaCeCuO, TlBaCuO, CeAuSb, YbAlB, and CeRuSi.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.04611,
title = {Fermi liquid behaviour in weakly disordered metals close to a quantum critical point},
author = {George Kastrinakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04611},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Published version, plus supplementary information with 3 appendices. Corrects a couple of typos in the published version. 7 pages total