Nonlinear screening theory of the Coulomb glass

Details Nonlinear screening theory of the Coulomb glass Nonlinear screening theory of the Coulomb glass

2004-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406406v4

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 046402 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.046402

A nonlinear screening theory is formulated to study the problem of gap formation and its relation to glassy freezing in classical Coulomb glasses. We find that a pseudo-gap ("plasma dip") in a single-particle density of states begins to open already at temperatures comparable to the Coulomb energy. This phenomenon is shown to reflect the emergence of short range correlations in a liquid (plasma) phase, a process which occurs even in the absence of disorder. Glassy ordering emerges when disorder is present, but this occurs only at temperatures more then an order of magnitude lower, which is shown to follow from nonlinear screening of the Coulomb interaction. Our result suggest that the formation of the "plasma dip" at high temperatures is a process distinct from the formation of the Efros-Shklovskii (ES) pseudo-gap, which in our model emerges only within the glassy phase.

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