Abstract
A standard diagrammatic theory is formulated for the density response function of a system of independent particles moving in a random potential. In the limit of small , the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the particle-hole vertex function may be solved for in terms of a current relaxation kernel [essentially the inverse of the diffusion coefficient ]. is obtained as the sum of the imaginary part of the single-particle self-energy and the current matrix element of the irreducible kernel and is determined diagrammatically. A theorem is formulated, stating that any diagram for or containing a (bare) diffusion propagator belongs to a well-defined class of diagrams whose divergencies cancel each other, and an exact proof is presented. In particular, this implies that there are no divergent contributions to or from a diffusion propagator. However, in the presence of time-reversal invariance, is shown to have infrared divergencies in , signalling a breakdown of the perturbation expansion in terms of the scattering potential which has first been discussed by Abrahams et al. A self-consistent treatment in the weak-coupling limit yields a finite static polarizability , a dynamical conductivity for , and a finite localization length in for arbitrarily weak disorder. In our results agree remarkably well with the exact solutions by Berezinsky and also Abrikosov and Ryshkin. Ryshkin.
- Received 21 July 1980
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.22.4666
©1980 American Physical Society