Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-12-05
Phys. Rev. B 77, 115353 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
32 pages, 15 figures, Revtex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.115353
We consider a clean two-dimensional interacting electron gas subject to a random perpendicular magnetic field, h({\bf r}). The field is nonquantizing, in the sense, that {\cal N}_h-a typical flux into the area \lambda_{\text{\tiny F}}^2 in the units of the flux quantum (\lambda_{\text{\tiny F}} is the de Broglie wavelength) is small, {\cal N}_h\ll 1. If the spacial scale, \xi, of change of h({\bf r}) is much larger than \lambda_{\text{\tiny F}}, the electrons move along semiclassical trajectories. We demonstrate that a weak field-induced curving of the trajectories affects the interaction-induced electron lifetime in a singular fashion: it gives rise to the correction to the lifetime with a very sharp energy dependence. The correction persists within the interval \omega \sim \omega_0= E_{\text{\tiny F}}{\cal N}_h^{2/3} much smaller than the Fermi energy, E_{\text{\tiny F}}. It emerges in the third order in the interaction strength; the underlying physics is that a small phase volume \sim (\omega/E_{\text{\tiny F}})^{1/2} for scattering processes, involving {\em two} electron-hole pairs, is suppressed by curving. Even more surprising effect that we find is that {\em disorder-averaged} interaction correction to the density of states, \delta\nu(\omega), exhibits {\em oscillatory} behavior, periodic in \bigl(\omega/\omega_0\bigr)^{3/2}. In our calculations of interaction corrections random field is incorporated via the phases of the Green functions in the coordinate space. We discuss the relevance of the new low-energy scale for realizations of a smooth random field in composite fermions and in disordered phase of spin-fermion model of ferromagnetic quantum criticality.
Raikh Mikhail E.
Sedrakyan Tigran A.
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