Dispersion Instability in Strongly Interacting Electron Liquids

dc.creatorZhang, Ying
dc.creatorYakovenko, V. M.
dc.creatorSarma, S. Das
dc.date2004-10-01
dc.date2005-01-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T15:42:09Z
dc.descriptionWe show that the low-density strongly interacting electron liquid, interacting via the long-range Coulomb interaction, could develop a dispersion instability at a critical density associated with the approximate flattening of the quasiparticle energy dispersion. At the critical density the quasiparticle effective mass diverges at the Fermi surface, but the signature of this Fermi surface instability manifests itself away from the Fermi momentum at higher densities. For densities below the critical density the system is unstable since the quasiparticle velocity becomes negative. We show that one physical mechanism underlying the dispersion instability is the emission of soft plasmons by the quasiparticles. The dispersion instability occurs both in two and three dimensional electron liquids. We discuss the implications of the dispersion instability for experiments at low electron densities.
dc.descriptionAccepted version for publication
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410039
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410039
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. B 71, 115105 (2005)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevB.71.115105
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/36185
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.titleDispersion Instability in Strongly Interacting Electron Liquids
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