Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
1997-06-04
Phys. Rev. B 56, 4529-4540 (1997)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
12 pages, no figures, final version as published
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.56.4529
Using an effective-field-theory (nonlinear sigma model) description of interacting electrons in a disordered metal ring enclosing magnetic flux, we calculate the moments of the persistent current distribution, in terms of interacting Goldstone modes (diffusons and cooperons). At the lowest or Gaussian order we reproduce well-known results for the average current and its variance that were originally obtained using diagrammatic perturbation theory. At this level of approximation the current distribution can be shown to be strictly Gaussian. The nonlinear sigma model provides a systematic way of calculating higher-order contributions to the current moments. An explicit calculation for the average current of the first term beyond Gaussian order shows that it is small compared to the Gaussian result; an order-of-magnitude estimation indicates that the same is true for all higher-order contributions to the average current and its variance. We therefore conclude that the experimentally observed magnitude of persistent currents cannot be explained in terms of interacting diffusons and cooperons.
Bussemaker Harmen J.
Kirkpatrick Theodore R.
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