Influence of nonmagnetic impurities on the kondo effect

The influence of scattering by nonmagnetic impurities is studied in perturbation theory. While the finite lifetime of the electrons in intermediate states due to scattering by nonmagnetic impurities does not lead to a change in the logT-behaviour of the third-order self-energy, certain vertex-corrections give rise to an additional term which varies like 1/√T at low temperatures. Similar correction terms are found to occur in the higher order self-energy contributions. Although these terms diverge more strongly atT=0 than the logarithmic contributions they are quite small at finite temperatures since they depend on the lifetime τ of the electrons through a factor of (? _F τ)^?5/2 (? _F Fermi energy). The possibility of observing these interference effects experimentally is discussed.