Zero-temperature optical conductivity of ultraclean Fermi liquids and superconductors
Zero-temperature optical conductivity of ultraclean Fermi liquids and superconductors
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超净费米液体和超导体的零温光导率
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2005
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P. Howell
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A. Rosch;P. Howell
We calculate the low-frequency optical conductivity $ensuremath{sigma}(ensuremath{omega})$ of clean metals and superconductors at zero temperature neglecting the effects of impurities and phonons. In general, the frequency and temperature dependences of $ensuremath{sigma}$ have very little in common. For small Fermi surfaces in three dimensions (but not in two dimensions) we find, for example, that $mathrm{Re}phantom{
ule{0.2em}{0ex}}ensuremath{sigma}(ensuremath{omega}g0)ensuremath{approx}mathrm{const}$ which corresponds to a scattering rate $ensuremath{Gamma}ensuremath{propto}{ensuremath{omega}}^{2}$ even in the absence of umklapp scattering when there is no ${T}^{2}$ contribution to $ensuremath{Gamma}$. In the main part of the paper we discuss in detail the optical conductivity of $d$-wave superconductors in two dimensions where $mathrm{Re}phantom{
ule{0.2em}{0ex}}ensuremath{sigma}(ensuremath{omega}g0)ensuremath{propto}{ensuremath{omega}}^{4}$ for the smallest frequencies and the umklapp processes typically set in smoothly above a finite threshold ${ensuremath{omega}}_{0}$ smaller than twice the maximal gap $ensuremath{Delta}$. In cases where the nodes are located at $(ifmmodepmelse extpmfi{}ensuremath{pi}∕2,ifmmodepmelse extpmfi{}ensuremath{pi}∕2)$, such that direct umklapp scattering among them is possible, one obtains $mathrm{Re}phantom{
ule{0.2em}{0ex}}ensuremath{sigma}(ensuremath{omega})ensuremath{propto}{ensuremath{omega}}^{2}$.