Cooper channel and the singularities in the thermodynamics of a Fermi liquid

Abstract

We analyze how the logarithmic renormalizations in the Cooper channel affect the nonanalytic temperature dependence of the specific heat coefficient $\ensuremath{\gamma}(T)\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\gamma}(0)=A(T)T$ in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid. We show that $A(T)$ is expressed exactly in terms of the fully renormalized backscattering amplitude, which includes the renormalization in the Cooper channel. In contrast to the one-dimensional case, both charge and spin components of the backscattering amplitudes are subject to this renormalization. We show that the logarithmic renormalization of the charge amplitude vanishes for a flat Fermi surface when the system becomes effectively one dimensional.