The Metallic-Like Conductivity of a Two-Dimensional Hole System

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1997-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9709184v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Latex, 3 pages, 4 ps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1288

We report on a zero magnetic field transport study of a two-dimensional, variable-density, hole system in GaAs. As the density is varied we observe, for the first time in GaAs-based materials, a crossover from an insulating behavior at low-density, to a metallic-like behavior at high-density, where the metallic behavior is characterized by a large drop in the resistivity as the temperature is lowered. These results are in agreement with recent experiments on Si-based two-dimensional systems by Kravchenko et al. and others. We show that, in the metallic region, the resistivity is dominated by an exponential temperature-dependence with a characteristic temperature which is proportional to the hole density, and appear to reach a constant value at lower temperatures.

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