Wigner-Mott scaling of transport near the two-dimensional metal-insulator transition

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2011-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/1112.0440v2

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085133 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.85.085133

Electron-electron scattering usually dominates the transport in strongly correlated materials. It typically leads to pronounced resistivity maxima in the incoherent regime around the coherence temperature $T^{*}$, reflecting the tendency of carriers to undergo Mott localization following the demise of the Fermi liquid. This behavior is best pronounced in the vicinity of interaction-driven (Mott-like) metal-insulator transitions, where the $T^{*}$ decreases, while the resistivity maximum $\rho_{max}$ increases. Here we show that, in this regime, the entire family of resistivity curves displays a characteristic scaling behavior $\rho(T)/\rho_{max}\approx F(T/T_{max}),$ while the $\rho_{max}$ and $T_{max}\sim T^{*}$ assume a powerlaw dependence on the quasi-particle effective mass $m^{*}$. Remarkably, precisely such trends are found from an appropriate scaling analysis of experimental data obtained from diluted two-dimensional electron gases in zero magnetic fields. Our analysis provides strong evidence that inelastic electron-electron scattering -- and not disorder effects -- dominates finite temperature transport in these systems, validating the Wigner-Mott picture of the two-dimensional metal-insulator transition.

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