Lifetime of a quasiparticle in an electron liquid. II

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Zhixin Qian
Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Received 18 December 2005; revised 6 March 2006; published 21 June 2006

Inelasticlifetime of an electron quasiparticle in an electron liquid dueto electron-electron interaction evaluated in previous work is calculated inan alternative way. Both the contributions of the "direct" and"exchange" processes are included. The results turn out to beexactly the same as those obtained previously, and hence confirmthe latter and consequently fully resolve the theoretical discrepancies existingin the literature. Derivation in the two-dimensional case is presentedin detail due to its intricacies. The effects of localfield and finite well width on the effective electron interactionin the two-dimensional case are also investigated in a quantitivecomparison of the electron relaxation rate between theory and experiment.These effects are shown to make a rather small contributionto the quasiparticle lifetime.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.245112
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevB.73.245112
PACS:	71.10.Ay; 72.10.-d 71.10.Ay Fermi-liquid theory and other phenomenological models of many electron systems (condensed matter) 72.10.-d Theory of electronic transport; scattering mechanisms YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS:	quasiparticles, Fermi liquid

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