Anomalous temperature dependence of resistivity in quasi-one-dimensional conductors in a strong magnetic field

Details Anomalous temperature dependence of resistivity in quasi-one-dimensional conductors in a strong magnetic field Anomalous temperature dependence of resistivity in quasi-one-dimensional conductors in a strong magnetic field

1998-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9802172v3

Eur. Phys. J. B 11, 385-399 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

RevTeX, 17 pages, 7 figures. v.2: minor corrections; references are added and updated v.3: minor corrections as in the publish

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100510050949

We present a heuristic, semiphenomenological model of the anomalous temperature (T) dependence of resistivity Rxx recently observed experimentally in the quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) organic conductors of the (TMTSF)2X family in moderately strong magnetic fields. We suggest that a Q1D conductor behaves like an insulator (dRxx/dT<0), when its effective dimensionality is one, and like a metal (dRxx/dT>0), when its effective dimensionality is greater than one. Applying a magnetic field reduces the effective dimensionality of the system and switches the temperature dependence of resistivity between the insulating and metallic laws depending on the magnitude and orientation of the magnetic field. We critically analyze whether various microscopic models suggested in literature can produce such a behavior and find that none of the models is fully satisfactory. In particular, we perform detailed analytical and numerical calculations within the scenario of magnetic-field-induced spin-density-wave precursor effect suggested by Gor'kov and find that the theoretical results do not agree with the experimental observations.

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