Hopping Conduction in Uniaxially Stressed Si:B near the Insulator-Metal Transition

Details Hopping Conduction in Uniaxially Stressed Si:B near the Insulator-Metal Transition Hopping Conduction in Uniaxially Stressed Si:B near the Insulator-Metal Transition

1998-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9807259v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.60.2286

Using uniaxial stress to tune the critical density near that of the sample, we have studied in detail the low-temperature conductivity of p-type Si:B in the insulating phase very near the metal-insulator transition. For all values of temperature and stress, the conductivity collapses onto a single universal scaling curve. For large values of the argument, the scaling function is well fit by the exponentially activated form associated with variable range hopping when electron-electron interactions cause a soft Coulomb gap in the density of states at the Fermi energy. The temperature dependence of the prefactor, corresponding to the T-dependence of the critical curve, has been determined reliably for this system, and is proportional to the square-root of T. We show explicitly that nevlecting the prefactor leads to substantial errors in the determination of the scaling parameters and the critical exponents derived from them. The conductivity is not consistent with Mott variable-range hopping in the critical region nor does it obey this form for any range of the parameters. Instead, for smaller argument of the scaling function, the conductivity of Si:B is well fit by an exponential form with exponent 0.31 related to the critical exponents of the system at the metal- insulator transition.

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