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 by the grain diameter and the dimensionless conductance by the tunnelling dimensionless conductance . In particular, we demonstrate that at zero temperature no conducting phase can exist for dimensions . 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