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Quantum Correction to Conductivity Close to Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in Two Dimensions

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study the temperature dependence of the conductivity due to quantum interference processes for a two-dimensional disordered itinerant electron system close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Near the quantum critical point, the cross-over between diffusive and ballistic regimes of quantum interference effects occurs at a temperature T=1/τγ(EFτ)2 T^{\ast}=1/\tau \gamma (E_{F}\tau)^{2}, where γ\gamma is the parameter associated with the Landau damping of the spin fluctuations, τ\tau is the impurity scattering time, and EFE_{F} is the Fermi energy. For a generic choice of parameters, TT^{\ast} is smaller than the nominal crossover scale 1/τ1/\tau . In the ballistic quantum critical regime, the conductivity behaves as T1/3T^{1/3}.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502252,
  title  = {Quantum Correction to Conductivity Close to Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in Two Dimensions},
  author = {I. Paul and C. Pépin and B. N. Narozhny and D. L. Maslov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502252},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure