Diffusion of electrons in random magnetic fields,
Abstract
Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system in static random magnetic fields is studied by solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation numerically. The asymptotic behaviors of the second moment of the wave packets and the temporal auto-correlation function in such systems are investigated. It is shown that, in the region away from the band edge, the growth of the variance of the wave packets turns out to be diffusive, whereas the exponents for the power-law decay of the temporal auto- correlation function suggest a kind of fractal structure in the energy spectrum and in the wave functions. The present results are consistent with the interpretation that the states away from the band edge region are critical.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9503111,
title = {Diffusion of electrons in random magnetic fields,},
author = {Tohru Kawarabayashi and Tomi Ohtsuki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9503111},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
22 pages (8 figures will be mailed if requested), LaTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev. B