A New Liquid Phase and Metal-Insulator Transition in Si MOSFETs
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2009-10-30 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We argue that there is a new liquid phase in the two-dimensional electron system in Si MOSFETs at low enough electron densities. The recently observed metal-insulator transition results as a crossover from the percolation transition of the liquid phase through the disorder landscape in the system below the liquid-gas critical temperature. The consequences of our theory are discussed for variety of physical properties relevant to the recent experiments.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9711195,
title = {A New Liquid Phase and Metal-Insulator Transition in Si MOSFETs},
author = {Song He and X. C. Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9711195},
year = {2009}
}
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