Of Decoherent Electrons and Disordered Conductors
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
This lecture note reviews a variety of transport and thermodynamic measurements of electron decoherence time in low-dimensional conductors at low temperature. The mechanism of dephasing by electron interaction mediated by an arbitrarily small number of magnetic impurities is neither applicable to our linear-response measurements of weak localization, nor is it observed in the recent high-field measurements of the decoherence time in nominally pure quasi-one dimensional gold wires. The source of decoherence, after extensive experiments, still appears to be intrinsic.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205274,
title = {Of Decoherent Electrons and Disordered Conductors},
author = {P. Mohanty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205274},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
34 pages, 19 figures; Invited lecture at the NATO Advanced Study Institute in Geilo, Norway (2001)