SPIN-ORBIT SCATTERING FOR LOCALIZED-ELECTRONS - ABSENCE OF NEGATIVE MAGNETOCONDUCTANCE

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作者
MEIR, Y [1 ]
WINGREEN, NS [1 ]
ENTINWOHLMAN, O [1 ]
ALTSHULER, BL [1 ]
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[1] TEL AVIV UNIV,RAYMOND & BEVERLY SACLER FAC EXACT SCI,SCH PHYS & ASTRON,IL-69978 TEL AVIV,ISRAEL
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1517
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The distribution of hopping conductances in the strongly localized regime in the presence of both a magnetic field and spin-orbit (SO) scattering is calculated via an analytic independent-directed-path formalism and a locator expansion which includes all correlations between paths. Both methods lead to a positive magnetoconductance for all strengths of SO scattering, contrary to recent random-matrix-theory predictions. Extensive numerical simulations demonstrate that the crossover from negative to positive magnetoconductance occurs as the system size exceeds the localization length.
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页码:1517 / 1520
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