Session K44: Transport in Disordered Electronic Systems
2:30 PM–5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Baltimore Convention Center Room: 347
Sponsoring Unit:
DCMP
Chair: A. Punnose, University of Wisconsin
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.MAR.K44.3
Abstract: K44.00003 : Melting of the electron Wigner Crystal: Theory of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions (2DMIT)
2:54 PM–3:06 PM
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Authors:
John Janik
Sergey Pankov
Vladimir Dobrosavljevic
(NHFML/FSU National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310 )
Past theoretical work in explaining the 2D metal-to-insulator transition at $T = 0$ has focused on perturbative approaches around the Fermi Liquid state, and has met with limited success [1]. Starting from the opposite limit we propose a charge transfer model with vacancy-interstitial pair formation as the mechanism for the phase transition. A new picture of the phase diagram has emerged [2], which our theory explains. At low carrier density we find an insulating phase with short-range order, at high density a metallic phase with no order, and a persistent intermediate density metallic phase with short range order. Our theory also explains the experimentally observed strong effective mass enhancements, as the metal-insulator transition is approached from the metallic side. \newline 1. Abrahams, E., Kravchenko, S. V., and Sarachik, M. P., Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 251-266 (2001). 2. Falakshahi, H. \& Waintal, X., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 046801 (2005).
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