Dephasing time of composite fermions

Details Dephasing time of composite fermions Dephasing time of composite fermions

1996-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9604146v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

14 pages, RevTeX 3.0, epsf, 1 EPS figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.54.8782

We study the dephasing of fermions interacting with a fluctuating transverse gauge field. The divergence of the imaginary part of the fermion self energy at finite temperatures is shown to result from a breakdown of Fermi's golden rule due to a faster than exponential decay in time. The strong dephasing affects experiments where phase coherence is probed. This result is used to describe the suppression of Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations of composite fermions (oscillations in the conductivity near the half-filled Landau level). We find that it is important to take into account both the effect of dephasing and the mass renormalization. We conclude that while it is possible to use the conventional theory to extract an effective mass from the temperature dependence of the SdH oscillations, the resulting effective mass differs from the $m^\ast$ of the quasiparticle in Fermi liquid theory.

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