The Anderson Transition: Time Reversal Symmetry and Universality

1997/04/23 by Keith Slevin, Tomi Ohtsuki · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.78.4083

published as Physical Review Letters 78 (1997) 4083 · To appear in Physical Review Letters. Latex 4 pages with 4 figures

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Abstract

We report a finite size scaling study of the Anderson transition. Different scaling functions and different values for the critical exponent have been found, consistent with the existence of the orthogonal and unitary universality classes which occur in the field theory description of the transition. The critical conductance distribution at the Anderson transition has also been investigated and different distributions for the orthogonal and unitary classes obtained.

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