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Weak localization effects in granular metals

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The weak localization correction to the conductivity of a granular metal is calculated using the diagrammatic technique in the reciprocal grain lattice representation. The properties of this correction are very similar to that one in disordered metal, with the replacement of the electron mean free path \ell by the grain diameter dd and the dimensionless conductance gg by the tunnelling dimensionless conductance gTg_{T}. In particular, we demonstrate that at zero temperature no conducting phase can exist for dimensions D2D\leq 2. We also analyze the WL correction to magnetoconductivity in the weak field limit.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504169,
  title  = {Weak localization effects in granular metals},
  author = {C. Biagini and T. Caneva and V. Tognetti and A. A. Varlamov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504169},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures; minor corrections added