PERSISTENT CURRENTS IN AN INTERACTING 1D DISORDERED RING - MANIFESTATIONS OF THE MOTT-HUBBARD TRANSITION

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ABRAHAM, M
BERKOVITS, R
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[1] Jack and Pearl Resnick Institute for Advanced Technology, Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1509
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We present an exact calculation of the persistent current in interacting disordered 1D rings. This system exhibits a variety of interesting behaviors depending on the disorder and the strength of electron-electron interactions. We find that even for the disordered case the current at high values of interactions is strongly suppressed due to the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition. We observe that no dramatic increase of the averaged current or its rms value as a result of interactions is possible for these systems.
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