Thermal plasmon resonantly enhances electron scattering in Dirac/Weyl semimetals

We study the inelastic scattering rate due to the Coulomb interaction in three-dimensional Dirac/Weyl semimetals at finite temperature. We show that the perturbation theory diverges because of the long-range nature of the interaction, hence, thermally induced screening must be taken into account. We...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kozii, Vladyslav, Fu, Liang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117132
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-6500
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8803-1017