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Magnetoconductivity due to electron-electron interaction in a non-Galilean-invariant Fermi liquid

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-07-16 v2

Abstract

The T2T^2-scaling of resistivity with temperature is often viewed as a classic hallmark of a Fermi-liquid (FL) behavior in metals. However, if umklapp scattering is suppressed, this scaling is not universally guaranteed to occur. In this case, the resistivity behavior is influenced by several factors, such as dimensionality (two vs. three), topology (simply- vs. multiply-connected Fermi surfaces), and (in two dimensions) the shape (convex vs. concave) of the Fermi surface (FS). Specifically for an isotropic spectrum, as well as for a two-dimensional (2D) convex FS, the T2T^2 term is absent, and the first non-zero contribution scales as T4lnTT^4\ln T in 2D and as T4T^4 in 3D. In this paper, we study the TT-dependence of the resistivity, arising from electron-electron interactions, in the presence of a weak magnetic field. We show that, for an isotropic FS in any dimensions and for a convex 2D FS, the T2T^2 term is also absent in both Hall and diagonal components of the magnetoconductivity, which instead scale as BT4lnTBT^4\ln T and B2T4lnTB^2T^4\ln T, respectively, in 2D and as BT4BT^4 and B2T4B^2T^4 in 3D. The FL-like scaling, i.e., BT2BT^2 and B2T2B^2T^2 of the Hall and diagonal conductivities is recovered for a concave FS in 2D. Furthermore, we show that, for an isotropic spectrum, magnetoresistance is absent even in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Additionally, we examine the high-temperature limit, when electron-electron scattering prevails over electron-impurity one, and show that all the components of the conductivity tensor saturate in this limit at values that are determined by impurity scattering but, in general, differ from the corresponding values at T=0T=0.

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@article{arxiv.2503.11063,
  title  = {Magnetoconductivity due to electron-electron interaction in a non-Galilean-invariant Fermi liquid},
  author = {Tatia Kiliptari and Dmitrii L. Maslov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11063},
  year   = {2025}
}