Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2006-06-15
Phys. Rev. B 74, 165104 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
20 pages, 1 column, 6 figures, 1 Table; expands cond-mat/0110307 and cond-mat/0503652; final version to appear in PRB
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.74.165104
We investigate the decoherence of the electron wavepacket in purely ballistic one-dimensional systems described through the Luttinger liquid (LL). At a finite temperature $T$ and long times $t$, we show that the electron Green's function for a fixed wavevector close to one Fermi point decays as $\exp(-t/\tau_F)$, as opposed to the power-law behavior occurring at short times, and the emerging electron lifetime obeys $\tau_F^{-1}\propto T$ for spinful as well as spinless electrons. For strong interactions, $(T\tau_F)\ll 1$, reflecting that the electron is not a good Landau quasiparticle in LLs. We justify that fractionalization is the main source of electron decoherence for spinful as well as spinless electrons clarifying the peculiar electron mass renormalization close to the Fermi points. For spinless electrons and weak interactions, our intuition can be enriched through a diagrammatic approach or Fermi Golden rule and through a Johnson-Nyquist noise picture. We stress that the electron lifetime (and the fractional quasiparticles) can be revealed from Aharonov-Bohm experiments or momentum resolved tunneling. We aim to compare the results with those of spin-incoherent and chiral LLs.
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