SCALING PROPERTIES NEAR THE ANDERSON TRANSITION

被引:23
作者
EFETOV, KB
VIEHWEGER, O
机构
[1] Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, 7000 Stuttgart 80
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 45卷 / 20期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.45.11546
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We present detailed results of analytical and numerical investigations of the Anderson metal-insulator (MI) transition based on a supersymmetric nonlinear sigma-model in the effective-medium approximation. We show that in the critical metallic regime the density-of-states correlation function has two characteristic length scales-xi and zeta which diverge according to a power law but have different critical exponents. Moreover, we derive that the level broadening depends exponentially on the shorter length-zeta and put forward a physical interpretation that enables us to express the diffusion coefficient in terms of these two lengths. We argue that in the vicinity of the MI transition the properties of the system are determined by the correlation length-zeta, which is related to the typical size of classically forbidden regions, and the phase-coherence length, which sets the scale for self-averaging of the density-of-states correlator. Relating the level broadening due to tunneling along a distance-xi and the Thouless length, we reproduce earlier results on the critical exponential behavior of the diffusion coefficient.
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页码:11546 / 11556
页数:11
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