The effect of a small magnetic flux on the metal-insulator transition

Details The effect of a small magnetic flux on the metal-insulator transition The effect of a small magnetic flux on the metal-insulator transition

2009-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/0901.4452v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

We numerically show that very small magnetic flux can significantly shift the metal-insulator transition point in a disordered electronic system. The shift we observe for the 3d Anderson model obeys a power law as predicted by Larkin and Khmel'nitskii (1981). We compute the exponent and find good agreement with the prediction. However, the power law holds only for much smaller magnetic fields than has been previously assumed, and is accompanied by a large prefactor, leading to a surprising strong dependence of the transition point on the applied magnetic field. Furthermore, we show that the critical level-spacing distribution is identical in the presence and absence of a magnetic field if hard-wall boundary conditions are applied. This result is surprising since both cases belong to different universality classes and different distributions have been reported for periodic boundary conditions.

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