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Thermal transport and Wiedemann-Franz law in the disordered Fermi liquid

G. Schwiete and A. M. Finkel'stein
Phys. Rev. B 90, 060201(R) – Published 13 August 2014

Abstract

We study thermal transport at low temperatures in the disordered Fermi liquid with short-range interactions. Gravitational potentials are used as sources for finding the heat density and its correlation function. For a comprehensive study, we extend the renormalization group (RG) analysis developed for electric transport by including the gravitational potentials into the RG scheme. Our analysis reveals that the Wiedemann-Franz law remains valid even in the presence of quantum corrections caused by the interplay of diffusion modes and the electron-electron interaction. In the present scheme this fundamental relation is closely connected with a fixed point in the multiparametric RG flow of the gravitational potentials.

  • Received 31 December 2013
  • Revised 18 June 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.060201

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

G. Schwiete1,2,* and A. M. Finkel'stein3,4,5

  • 1Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
  • 2Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany
  • 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
  • 4Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
  • 5Institut für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany

  • *schwiete@uni-mainz.de

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Vol. 90, Iss. 6 — 1 August 2014

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