The Elasticity of an Electron Liquid

Details The Elasticity of an Electron Liquid The Elasticity of an Electron Liquid

1998-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9811214v2

Phys. Rev. B 60, 7966 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

15 pages, 4 ps figures included, details added in some derivations

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.60.7966

The zero temperature response of an interacting electron liquid to a time-dependent vector potential of wave vector q and frequency w such that q << q_F, qv_F<< w << E_F/hbar (where q_F, v_F and E_F are the Fermi wavevector, velocity and energy respectively) is equivalent to that of a continuous elastic medium with nonvanishing shear modulus mu, bulk modulus K, and viscosity coefficients eta and zeta. We establish the relationship between the visco-elastic coefficients and the long-wavelength limit of the "dynamical local field factors" G_{L(T)}(q,w), which are widely used to describe exchange-correlation effects in electron liquids. We present several exact results for mu, including its expression in terms of Landau parameters, and practical approximate formulas for mu, eta and zeta as functions of density. These are used to discuss the possibility of a transverse collective mode in the electron liquid at sufficiently low density. Finally, we consider impurity scattering and/or quasiparticle collisions at non zero temperature. Treating these effects in the relaxation time (tau) approximation, explicit expressions are derived for mu and eta as functions of frequency. These formulas exhibit a crossover from the collisional regime (w tau << 1), where mu \sim 0 and eta \sim n E_F tau, to the collisionless regime (w tau >> 1), where mu \sim nE_F and eta \sim 0.

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