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Persistent Currents for Interacting Electrons: a Simple Hartree-Fock Picture

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

The average persistent current <I> of diffusive electrons in the Hartree-Fock approximation is derived in a simple non-diagrammatic picture. The Fourier expansion directly reflects the winding number decomposition of the diffusive motion around the ring. One recovers the results of Ambegaokar and Eckern, and Schmid. Moreover one finds an expression for <I> which is valid beyond the diffusive regime.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9506053,
  title  = {Persistent Currents for Interacting Electrons: a Simple Hartree-Fock Picture},
  author = {Gilles Montambaux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9506053},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, latex, no figures

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