{
  "id": "cond-mat/0510563",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2005-10-21T15:14:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-04-10T10:55:55.000Z",
  "title": "Influence Functional for Decoherence of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Conductors",
  "authors": [
    "Jan von Delft"
  ],
  "comment": "Final version, as submitted to IJMPB. 106 pages, 11 figures. First 16 pages contain summary of main results. Appendix A summarizes key technical steps, with a new section A.4 on \"Perturbative vs. Nonperturbative Methods\". Appendix C.4 on thermal weighting has been extended to include discussion [see Eqs.(C.22-24)] of average energy of electron trajectories",
  "journal": "International Journal of Modern Physics B, 22, 727-833 (2008)",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We have rederived the controversial influence functional approach of Golubev and Zaikin (GZ) for interacting electrons in disordered metals in a way that allows us to show its equivalence, before disorder averaging, to diagrammatic Keldysh perturbation theory. By representing a certain Pauli factor (1-2 rho) occuring in GZ's effective action in the frequency domain (instead of the time domain, as GZ do), we also achieve a more accurate treatment of recoil effects. With this change, GZ's approach reproduces, in a remarkably simple way, the standard, generally accepted result for the decoherence rate. -- The main text and appendix A.1 to A.3 of the present paper have already been published previously; for convenience, they are included here again, together with five additional, lengthy appendices containing relevant technical details.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2008-04-10T10:55:55.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "interacting electrons",
      "disordered conductors",
      "decoherence",
      "appendices containing relevant technical",
      "controversial influence functional approach"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1142/S0217979208039083",
      "journal": "International Journal of Modern Physics B",
      "year": 2008,
      "volume": 22,
      "number": 7,
      "pages": 727
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 106,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008IJMPB..22..727V"
    }
  }
}