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Using a three-frequency one-dimensional kicked rotor experimentally realized with a cold atomic gas, we study the transport properties at the critical point of the metal-insulator Anderson transition. We accurately measure the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-04-16 Gabriel Lemarié , Hans Lignier , Dominique Delande , Pascal Szriftgiser , Jean Claude Garreau

Elucidating the physics of the single-orbital Hubbard model in its intermediate coupling regime is a key missing ingredient to our understanding of metal-insulator transitions in real materials. Using recent non-perturbative many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Maria Chatzieleftheriou , Silke Biermann , Evgeny A. Stepanov

A simple non-interacting-electron model, combining local quantum tunneling and global classical percolation (due to a finite dephasing time at low temperatures), is introduced to describe a metal-insulator transition in two dimensions. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yigal Meir

The possibility of the strong electron-electron interaction driven insulating phase from the metallic phase in two-dimensions has been suggested for clean systems without intentional disorder, but its rigorous demonstration is still…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Byoung Hee Moon , Gang Hee Han , Miloš M. Radonjić , Hyunjin Ji , Vladimir Dobrosavljević

Although most metal-insulator transitions in doped insulators are generally viewed as Mott transitions, some systems seem to deviate from this scenario. Alkali metal-ammonia solutions are a brilliant example of that. They reveal a phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Gennady N. Chuev , Pascal Quemerais

We consider a model for a metal-insulator transition of correlated electrons in an external magnetic field. We find a broad region in interaction and magnetic field where metallic and insulating (fully magnetized) solutions coexist and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Janis , G. Czycholl

The problem of noninteracting electrons in the presence of annealed magnetic disorder, in addition to nonmagnetic quenched disorder, is considered. It is shown that the proper physical interpretation of this model is one of electrons…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

In solids, strong repulsion between electrons can inhibit their movement and result in a "Mott" metal-to-insulator transition (MIT), a fundamental phenomenon whose understanding has remained a challenge for over 50 years. A key issue is how…

Kicked rotors with certain non-analytic potentials avoid dynamical localization and undergo a metal-insulator transition. We show that typical properties of this transition are still present as the non-analyticity is progressively smoothed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia , Jiao Wang

We discuss a recent mapping of the Anderson-Mott metal-insulator transition onto a random field magnet problem. The most important new idea introduced is to describe the metal-insulator transition in terms of an order parameter expansion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We reexamine the problem of delocalization of two-dimensional electrons in the presence of random magnetic field. By introducing spatial correlations among random fluxes, a well-defined metal-insulator transition characterized by a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 D. N. Sheng , Z. Y. Weng

Metal insulator transitions driven by local Coulomb interactions are among the most fascinating phenomena in condensed matter physics. They occur in a large variety of transition metal compounds. Most of these strongly correlated materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Liebsch

We investigate the metal-to-insulator phase transition driven by the density-density electronic interaction in the quarter-filled model on a cubic lattice with two orbitals split by a crystal field. We show that a systematic consideration…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-30 M. Vandelli , J. Kaufmann , V. Harkov , A. I. Lichtenstein , K. Held , E. A. Stepanov

The nature of a metal-insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al [1], is examined. We attribute this phenomenon to a splitting of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

We have varied the disorder in a two-dimensional electron system in silicon by applying substrate bias. When the disorder becomes sufficiently low, we observe the emergence of the metallic phase, and find evidence for a metal-insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Dragana Popovic , A. B. Fowler , S. Washburn

We argue on the basis of experimental numbers that the B=0 metal-insulator transition in two dimensions, observed in Si-MOSFETs and in other two-dimensional systems, is likely to be due to a few strongly interacting electrons, which also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. M. Klapwijk , S. Das Sarma

The goal of this paper is to highlight several issues which are most crucial for the understanding of the ``metal-insulator transition'' in two dimensions. We discuss some common problems in interpreting experimental results on high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. L. Altshuler , D. L. Maslov , V. M. Pudalov

This review first describes the evidence that strongly suggests the existence of the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in a two-dimensional electron system in Si regardless of the amount of disorder. Extensive studies of the charge dynamics…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-22 Dragana Popović

Motivated by the resistive switchings in transition-metal oxides (TMOs) induced by a voltage bias, we study the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of an electric-field-driven strongly-correlated model featuring a first-order insulator-to-metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-26 Manuel I. Díaz , Jong E. Han , Camille Aron

The metal-insulator transition (MIT) is a fundamental phenomenon in condensed matter physics and a hallmark of strong electronic correlations. Hydrogen-based systems offer a simple yet powerful model for investigating the MIT, as their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-26 Juan Felipe Huan Lew-Yee , Mario Piris