Mean field theory of the Mott-Anderson transition
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2009-10-28 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We present a theory for disordered interacting electrons that can describe both the Mott and the Anderson transition in the respective limits of zero disorder and zero interaction. We use it to investigate the T=0 Mott-Anderson transition at a fixed electron density, as a the disorder strength is increased. Surprisingly, we find two critical values of disorder W_{nfl} and W_c. For W > W_{nfl}, the system enters a ``Griffiths'' phase, displaying metallic non-Fermi liquid behavior. At even stronger disorder, W=W_c > W_{nfl} the system undergoes a metal insulator transition, characterized by the linear vanishing of both the typical density of states and the typical quasiparticle weight.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9611100,
title = {Mean field theory of the Mott-Anderson transition},
author = {V. Dobrosavljevic and G. Kotliar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9611100},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, REVTEX, epsf