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Metal-insulator transition in highly conducting oriented polymers

Condensed Matter 2024-10-04 v1

Abstract

We suggest that highly conducting oriented polymers with a fibril structure can be modeled by a regular lattice of disordered metallic wires with a random first-neighbor interwire coupling which mimics the cross-links between fibrils. We show that such a model can be described by a non-linear sigma model. Within a one-loop self-consistent approximation, we determine the position of the metal-insulator transition as a function of interwire cross-links concentration, interwire coupling and number of polymer chains in a wire.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9512136,
  title  = {Metal-insulator transition in highly conducting oriented polymers},
  author = {N. Dupuis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9512136},
  year   = {2024}
}

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9 pages (RevTex) + 3 postcript figures

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