Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-05-04
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 076009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
14 pages; some comments on the helicities of the particles added; accepted for publication in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.076009
The propagation of excitation modes in a relativistic ultradegenerate plasma is modified by their interactions with the medium. These modifications can be computed by evaluating their on-shell self-energy, which gives (gauge-independent) dispersion relations. For modes with momentum close to the Fermi momentum, the one-loop fermion self-energy is dominated by a diagram with a soft photon in the loop. We find the one-loop dispersion relations for quasiparticles and antiquasiparticles, which behave differently as a consequence of their very different phase-space restrictions when they scatter with the electrons of the Fermi sea. In a relativistic system, the unscreened magnetic interactions spoil the normal Fermi liquid behavior of the plasma. For small values of the Fermi velocity, we recover the non-relativistic dispersion relations of condensed matter systems.
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