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Quantum Criticality at the Metal Insulator Transition

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We introduce a new method to analysis the many-body problem with disorder. The method is an extension of the real space renormalization group based on the operator product expansion. We consider the problem in the presence of interaction, large elastic mean free path, and finite temperatures. As a result scaling is stopped either by temperature or the length scale set by the diverging many-body length scale (superconductivity). Due to disorder a superconducting instability might take place at TSC0T_{SC}\to 0 giving rise to a metallic phase or T>TSCT>T_{SC}. For repulsive interactions at T0T\to 0 we flow towards the localized phase which is analized within the diffusive Finkelstein theory. For finite temperatures with strong repulsive backward interactions and non-spherical Fermi surfaces characterized by dlnN(b)lnb1|\frac{d\ln N(b)}{\ln b}|\ll 1 one finds a fixed point (D,Γ2)(D^*,\Gamma^*_2) in the plane (D,Γ2(s))(D,\Gamma_2^{(s)}). (D(KF)1D\propto(K_F\ell)^{-1} is the disorder coupling constant, Γ2(s)\Gamma_2^{(s)} is the particle-hole triplet interaction, bb is the length scale and N(b)N(b) is the number of channels.) For weak disorder, D<DD<D^*, one obtains a metallic behavior with the resistance ρ(D,Γ2(s),T)=ρ(D,Γ2(s),T)ρf(DDD1Tzν1)\rho(D,\Gamma_2^{(s)},T)=\rho(D,\Gamma_2^{(s)},T)\simeq \rho^*f(\frac{D-D^*}{D^*}\frac{1}{T^{z\nu_1}}) (ρ=ρ(D,Γ2,1)\rho^*=\rho(D^*,\Gamma_2^*,1), z=1z=1, and ν1>1\nu_1>1) in good agreement with the experiments.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0002106,
  title  = {Quantum Criticality at the Metal Insulator Transition},
  author = {D. Schmeltzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0002106},
  year   = {2009}
}

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35 pages, Revtex