Magnetic-field-induced Luttinger insulator state in quasi-one-dimensional conductors

Details Magnetic-field-induced Luttinger insulator state in quasi-one-dimensional conductors Magnetic-field-induced Luttinger insulator state in quasi-one-dimensional conductors

1998-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9807061v1

Synthetic Metals 103, 2028-2029 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

2 pages, no figures. This is a short version of cond-mat/9802172 for the Proceedings of the International Conference on Synthe

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0379-6779(98)00290-2

We present a heuristic, semiphenomenological model of the anomalous temperature (T) dependence of resistivity $\rho_{xx}$ 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 ($d\rho_{xx}/dT<0$), when its effective dimensionality is one, and like a metal ($d\rho_{xx}/dT>0$), 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 of the magnetic field and its orientation along the ``magic'' and ``nonmagic'' angles.

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