EVIDENCE FOR UNCONVENTIONAL ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN QUASI-CRYSTALS

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作者
MAYOU, D
BERGER, C
CYROTLACKMANN, F
KLEIN, T
LANCO, P
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[1] Laboratoire d'Etudes des Propriétés Electroniques des Solides, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3915
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O4 [物理学];
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摘要
The conductivity sigma of a series of AlCuFe and AlPdMn quasicrystals and approximant phases can be written sigma(T)=sigma4K + deltasigma(T). The sigma4K term is very low, decreases with improvement of structural quality, and varies strongly with composition. Deltasigma(T) is independent of the sample and increases anomalously with temperature up to 1000 K, with sigma1000K/sigma4K greater than 10. The results are interpreted by electronic hopping between structural entities separated by about 30 angstrom. Within a band picture, this process would correspond to interband transitions.
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