Schmidt, T. and König, P. and McCann, E. and Falko, Vladimir I. and Haug, R. J. (2001) Energy dependence of quasi-particle relaxation in a disordered Fermi liquid. Physical review letters, 86 (2). pp. 276-279. ISSN 1079-7114
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A spectroscopic method is applied to measure the inelastic quasiparticle relaxation rate in a disordered Fermi liquid. The quasiparticle relaxation rate g is deduced from the magnitude of fluctuations in the local density of states, which are probed using resonant tunneling through a localized impurity state. We study its dependence on the excitation energy E measured from the Fermi level. In a disordered metal (heavily doped GaAs) we find that g ~ E32 within the experimentally accessible energy interval, in agreement with the Altshuler-Aronov theory for electron-electron interactions in diffusive conductors.