On the dynamic conductivity for an electron-impurity system

The correlation function formula for the dynamic conductivity of a system of non-interacting electrons in the field of impurities is analyzed in terms of proper connected diagrams. By selecting those diagrams appropriate in the region of weak coupling and low impurity concentration, a set of coupled equations for the energy broadening γ (ω, ε, n_s) and the energy shift Δ(ω, ε, n_s) is derived, where both γ and Δ depend on the frequency ω of a probing field, the energy ε of the electron, and the concentration, n_g, of impurities. With the assumption of a finite range potential, these equations are solved. It is found that γ (ω, n_s) is smaller than that extrapolated value which the conventional expression γ₀ for the low-concentration collision frequency would predict, in the entire region studied, that the difference γ₀-γ becomes appreciable when the ratio of the average time between scatterings, τ_c, to the average duration of a scattering, τ_d, is 100 or less, that γ (ω, n_s) decreases monotonically from its static value γ (0, n_s), and becomes vanishingly small in the region ω≈1/τ_d, and that in the static limit (ω=0), γ=γ₀1?(2/π) (γ₀τ_d)+…], that the energy shift Δ is positive, and increases from 0 and reach a peak of magnitude γ₀ as ω is raised from 0. By using the γ and Δ obtained, the dynamic conductivity σ(ω, n_s) for degenerated electrons is calculated. The deviation, σ-σ₀, from the conventional expression σ₀=(?i) (n_ee²/M) ω-iΓ₀]^?1, (n_e]=number density of electrons), for 0°K, is appreciable when the ratio τ_c/τ_d is 100 or less. The field-term correction, which arises from the modification of the scattering due to the probing field, is found to be negligible in the entire region studied.