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Fermi liquid behaviour in weakly disordered metals close to a quantum critical point

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-02-01 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

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 V(q,ω)V(q,\omega) between the quasi-particles. We obtain typical Fermi liquid results proportional to T2T^2 and TT respectively, with prefactors which diverge as power laws of the control parameter aa upon approaching the critical point. The Kadowaki-Woods ratio is shown to be independent of aa (possibly times a logarithmic dependence on aa) only for the case of three-dimensional ferromagnetic fluctuations. Our results are consistent with experiments on the eight materials CeCoIn5_5, Sr3_3Ru2_2O7_7, YbRh2_2Si2_2, La2x_{2-x}Cex_xCuO4_4, Tl2_2Ba2_2CuO6+x_{6+x}, CeAuSb2_2, YbAlB4_4, and CeRuSi2_2.

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@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

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