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Metal-insulator transition in a weakly interacting many-electron system with localized single-particle states | | D.M. Basko
; I.L. Aleiner
; B.L. Altshuler
; | | Date: |
23 Jun 2005 | | Subject: | Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect; Disordered Systems and Neural Networks | cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.dis-nn | | Abstract: | We consider low-temperature behavior of weakly interacting electrons in disordered conductors in the regime when all single-particle eigenstates are localized by the quenched disorder. We prove that in the absence of coupling of the electrons to any external bath dc electrical conductivity exactly vanishes as long as the temperatute $T$ does not exceed some finite value $T_c$. At the same time, it can be also proven that at high enough $T$ the conductivity is finite. These two statements imply that the system undergoes a finite temperature Metal-to-Insulator transition, which can be viewed as Anderson-like localization of many-body wave functions in the Fock space. Metallic and insulating states are not different from each other by any spatial or discrete symmetries. We formulate the effective Hamiltonian description of the system at low energies (of the order of the level spacing in the single-particle localization volume). In the metallic phase quantum Boltzmann equation is valid, allowing to find the kinetic coefficients. In the insulating phase, $T | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0506617 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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