Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2004-12-08
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18 (2006) 2013-2027
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
19 pages, 7 figures. Fixed minor typos and updated references
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/18/6/016
We have extended our supercomputer-enabled Monte Carlo simulations of hopping transport in completely disordered 2D conductors to the case of substantial electron-electron Coulomb interaction. Such interaction may not only suppress the average value of hopping current, but also affect its fluctuations rather substantially. In particular, the spectral density $S_I (f)$ of current fluctuations exhibits, at sufficiently low frequencies, a $1/f$-like increase which approximately follows the Hooge scaling, even at vanishing temperature. At higher $f$, there is a crossover to a broad range of frequencies in which $S_I (f)$ is nearly constant, hence allowing characterization of the current noise by the effective Fano factor $F\equiv S_I(f)/2e \left< I\right>$. For sufficiently large conductor samples and low temperatures, the Fano factor is suppressed below the Schottky value (F=1), scaling with the length $L$ of the conductor as $F = (L_c / L)^{\alpha}$. The exponent $\alpha$ is significantly affected by the Coulomb interaction effects, changing from $\alpha = 0.76 \pm 0.08$ when such effects are negligible to virtually unity when they are substantial. The scaling parameter $L_c$, interpreted as the average percolation cluster length along the electric field direction, scales as $L_c \propto E^{-(0.98 \pm 0.08)}$ when Coulomb interaction effects are negligible and $L_c \propto E^{-(1.26 \pm 0.15)}$ when such effects are substantial, in good agreement with estimates based on the theory of directed percolation.
Kinkhabwala Yusuf A.
Likharev Konstantin K.
Sverdlov Viktor A.
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