Random Magnetic Impurities and the Landau Problem
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The 2-dimensional density of states of an electron is studied for a Poissonian random distribution of point vortices carrying flux in unit of the quantum of flux. It is shown that, for any given density of impurities, there is a transition, when , from an "almost free" density of state -with only a depletion of states at the bottom of the spectrum characterized by a Lifschitz tail- to a Landau density of state with sharp Landau level oscillations. Several evidences and arguments for this transition -numerical and analytical- are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9509105,
title = {Random Magnetic Impurities and the Landau Problem},
author = {Jean Desbois and Cyril Furtlehner and Stéphane Ouvry},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9509105},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
22 pages, latex, 4 figures upon request