Absence of electron dephasing at zero temperature
arXiv:cond-mat/0111398 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.65.195123
Abstract
Dephasing of electrons due to the electron-electron interaction has recently been the subject of a controversial debate, with different calculations yielding mutually incompatible results. In this paper we prove, by means of Ward identities, that neither a Coulomb interaction nor a short-ranged model interaction can lead to phase breaking at zero temperature in spatial dimensions d>2.
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