Interaction effects on magneto-oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas - art. no. 045426

Motivated by recent experiments, we study the interaction corrections to the damping of magneto-oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). We identify leading contributions to the interaction-induced damping which are induced by corrections to the effective mass and quantum scattering time. The damping factor is calculated for Coulomb and short-range interaction in the whole range of temperatures, from the ballistic to the diffusive regime. It is shown that the dominant effect is that of the renormalization of the effective electron mass due to the interplay of the interaction and impurity scattering. The results are relevant to the analysis of experiments on magneto-oscillations (in particular, for extracting the value of the effective mass) and are expected to be useful for understanding the physics of a high-mobility 2DEG near the apparent metal-insulator transition.