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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 α\alpha flux in unit of the quantum of flux. It is shown that, for any given density of impurities, there is a transition, when α0.30.4\alpha\simeq 0.3-0.4, 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.

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@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}
}

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22 pages, latex, 4 figures upon request

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