Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2003-06-09
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 226403 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
4 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.226403
While standard scaling arguments show that a system of non-interacting electrons in two dimensions and in the presence of uncorrelated disorder is insulating, in this work we discuss the case where inter-impurity correlations are included. We find that for point-like impurities and an infinite inter-impurity correlation length a mobility edge exists in 2D even if the individual impurity potentials are random. In the uncorrelated system we recover the scaling results, while in the intermediate regime for length scales comparable to the correlation length, the system behaves like a metal but with increasing fluctuations, before strong localization eventually takes over for length scales much larger than the correlation length. In the intermediate regime, the relevant length scale is not given by the elastic scattering length but by the inter-impurity correlation length, with important consequences for high mobility systems.
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