Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2005-06-23
Annals of Physics 321, 1126 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.aop.2005.11.014
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
Aleiner Igor L.
Altshuler Boris L.
Basko D. M.
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