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Critical properties of the metal-insulator transition in anisotropic systems

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2016-08-15 v1

Abstract

We study the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization with anisotropic hopping, i.e., weakly coupled chains and weakly coupled planes. In our extensive numerical study we identify and characterize the metal-insulator transition by means of the transfer-matrix method. The values of the critical disorder WcW_c obtained are consistent with results of previous studies, including multifractal analysis of the wave functions and energy level statistics. WcW_c decreases from its isotropic value with a power law as a function of anisotropy. Using high accuracy data for large system sizes we estimate the critical exponent as ν=1.62±0.07\nu=1.62\pm0.07. This is in agreement with its value in the isotropic case and in other models of the orthogonal universality class.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911029,
  title  = {Critical properties of the metal-insulator transition in anisotropic systems},
  author = {Frank Milde and Rudolf A. Römer and Michael Schreiber and Ville Uski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911029},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, 7 figures, requires svjour.csl and svepj.clo (included), submitted to EPJB