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Phys. Rev. B 79, 115445 (2009) [10 pages]

Momentum dependence of the spin susceptibility in two dimensions: Nonanalytic corrections in the Cooper channel

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Stefano Chesi1, Robert Andrzej Żak1, Pascal Simon1,2,3, and Daniel Loss1
1Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
2Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France
3Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS UMR-8502, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

Received 6 November 2008; revised 24 February 2009; published 30 March 2009

We consider the effect of rescattering of pairs of quasiparticles in the Cooper channel resulting in the strong renormalization of second-order corrections to the spin susceptibility in a two-dimensional electron system. We use the Fourier expansion of the scattering potential in the vicinity of the Fermi surface to find that each harmonic becomes renormalized independently. Since some of those harmonics are negative, the first derivative of the spin susceptibility is bound to be negative at small momenta, in contrast to the lowest order perturbation theory result, which predicts a positive slope. We present in detail an effective method to calculate diagrammatically corrections to the spin susceptibility to infinite order.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.115445
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.115445
PACS:
71.10.Ay, 71.10.Pm, 75.40.Cx