Theory of Interacting Bloch Electrons in a Magnetic Field

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2005-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510381v1

J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 74, 2813 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

19 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1143/JPSJ.74.2813

We study interacting electrons in a periodic potential and a uniform magnetic field ${\bf B}$ taking the spin-orbit interaction into account. We first establish a perturbation expansion for those electrons with respect to the Bloch states in zero field. It is shown that the expansion can be performed with the zero-field Feynman diagrams of satisfying the momentum and energy conservation laws. We thereby clarify the structures of the self-energy and the thermodynamic potential in a finite magnetic field. We also provide a prescription of calculating the electronic structure in a finite magnetic field within the density functional theory starting from the zero-field energy-band structure. On the basis of these formulations, we derive explicit expressions for the magnetic susceptibility of ${\bf B}\to{\bf 0}$ at various approximation levels on the interaction, particularly within the density functional theory, which include the result of Roth [J. Phys. Chem. Solids {\bf 23} (1962) 433] as the non-interacting limit. We finally study the de Haas-van Alphen oscillation in metals to show that quasiparticles at the Fermi level with the many-body effective mass are directly relevant to the phenomenon. The present argument may be more transparent than that by Luttinger [Phys. Rev. {\bf 121} (1961) 1251] of using the gauge invariance and has an advantage that the change of the band structure with the field may be incorporated.

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