{
  "id": "1011.4409",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-11-19T12:09:56.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-11-19T12:09:56.000Z",
  "title": "Weak localization, Aharonov-Bohm oscillations and decoherence in arrays of quantum dots",
  "authors": [
    "Dmitri S. Golubev",
    "Andrew G. Semenov",
    "Andrei D. Zaikin"
  ],
  "comment": "19 pages, 13 figures, invited paper, published in a special issue of Fiz. Nizk. Temp. (Kharkov) dedicated to Prof. Igor Kulik",
  "journal": "Fiz. Nizk. Temp. (Kharkov), 36, 1163 (2010)",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "Combining scattering matrix theory with non-linear $\\sigma$-model and Keldysh technique we develop a unified theoretical approach enabling one to non-perturbatively study the effect of electron-electron interactions on weak localization and Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in arbitrary arrays of quantum dots. Our model embraces (i) weakly disordered conductors (ii) strongly disordered conductors and (iii) metallic quantum dots. In all these cases at $T \\to 0$ the electron decoherence time is found to saturate to a finite value determined by the universal formula which agrees quantitatively with numerous experimental results. Our analysis provides overwhelming evidence in favor of electron-electron interactions as a universal mechanism for zero temperature electron decoherence in disordered conductors.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-11-19T12:09:56.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "73.21.La",
      "73.20.Fz",
      "73.23.-b"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "aharonov-bohm oscillations",
      "weak localization",
      "disordered conductors",
      "zero temperature electron decoherence",
      "electron-electron interactions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1063/1.3518036",
      "journal": "Low Temperature Physics",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 36,
      "number": 10,
      "pages": 933
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 19,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010LTP....36..933G"
    }
  }
}