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Energy dependence of quasi-particle relaxation in a disordered Fermi liquid.

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>8/01/2001
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number2
Volume86
Number of pages4
Pages (from-to)276-279
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A spectroscopic method is applied to measure the inelastic quasiparticle relaxation rate in a disordered Fermi liquid. The quasiparticle relaxation rate g is deduced from the magnitude of fluctuations in the local density of states, which are probed using resonant tunneling through a localized impurity state. We study its dependence on the excitation energy E measured from the Fermi level. In a disordered metal (heavily doped GaAs) we find that g ~ E32 within the experimentally accessible energy interval, in agreement with the Altshuler-Aronov theory for electron-electron interactions in diffusive conductors.

Bibliographic note

A new method of correlation function spectroscopy has been developed by McCann (and experimentally realised by the Nanostructures group of Haug at Hannover) to measure inelastic lifetime of quasi-particles in disordered conductors at very low excitation energies. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Physics