Electronic viscosity in a quantum well: A test for the local density approximation

Details Electronic viscosity in a quantum well: A test for the local density approximation Electronic viscosity in a quantum well: A test for the local density approximation

2007-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702538v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 7 figures, RevTex4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.035320

In the local density approximation (LDA) for electronic time-dependent current-density functional theory (TDCDFT) many-body effects are described in terms of the visco-elastic constants of the homogeneous three-dimensional electron gas. In this paper we critically examine the applicability of the three-dimensional LDA to the calculation of the viscous damping of 1-dimensional collective oscillations of angular frequency $\omega$ in a quasi 2-dimensional quantum well. We calculate the effective viscosity $\zeta(\omega)$ from perturbation theory in the screened Coulomb interaction and compare it with the commonly used three-dimensional LDA viscosity $Y(\omega)$. Significant differences are found. At low frequency $Y(\omega)$ is dominated by a shear term, which is absent in $\zeta(\omega)$. At high frequency $\zeta(\omega)$ and $Y(\omega)$ exhibit different power law behaviors ($\omega^{-3}$ and $\omega^{-5/2}$ respectively), reflecting different spectral densities of electron-hole excitations in two and three dimensions. These findings demonstrate the need for better approximations for the exchange-correlation stress tensor in specific systems where the use of the three-dimensional functionals may lead to unphysical results.

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