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Equivalence of single-particle and transport lifetimes from hybridization fluctuations
1Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 and CNRS, UMR 7162, 75205 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Single band theories of quantum criticality successfully describe a single-particle lifetime with non-Fermi liquid temperature dependence, but they fail to obtain a charge transport rate with the same dependence unless the interaction is assumed to be momentum independent. Here we demonstrate that a quantum critical material, with a long-range mode that transmutes electrons between light and heavy bands, exhibits a quasilinear temperature dependence for both the single-particle and the charge transport lifetimes, despite the strong momentum dependence of the interaction.
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