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Gauge-invariant response functions of fermions coupled to a gauge field

arXiv:cond-mat/9405083 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.50.17917

Abstract

We study a model of fermions interacting with a gauge field and calculate gauge-invariant two-particle Green's functions or response functions. The leading singular contributions from the self-energy correction are found to be cancelled by those from the vertex correction for small and . As a result, the remaining contributions are not singular enough to change the leading order results of the random phase approximation. It is also shown that the gauge field propagator is not renormalized up to two-loop order. We examine the resulting gauge-invariant two-particle Green's functions for small and , but for all ratios of and we conclude that they can be described by Fermi liquid forms without a diverging effective mass.

Plain Tex, 35 pages, 5 figures available upon request, Revised Version (Expanded discussion), To be published in Physical Review B 50, (1994) (December 15 issue)

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