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We discuss a metal-insulator transition caused by random couplings of magnetic moments in itinerant systems. An analytic solution for the single particle Green function is derived from dynamical self consistency equations, the corresponding…
We report a detailed scaling analysis of resistivity \rho(T,n) measured for several high-mobility 2D electron systems in the vicinity of the 2D metal-insulator transition. We analyzed the data using the two parameter scaling approach and…
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…
We report direct experimental evidence that the insulating phase of a disordered, yet strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system (2DES) becomes unstable at low temperatures. As the temperature decreases, a transition from…
The conductance of a disordered finite-size electron system is calculated by reducing the initial dynamic problem of arbitrary dimensionality to strictly one-dimensional problems for one-particle mode propagators. The metallic ground state…
Metal-insulator transitions driven by disorder (Delta) and/or by electron correlations (U) are investigated within the Anderson-Hubbard model with local binary-alloy disorder using a simple but consistent mean-field approach. The Delta-U…
The recent experimental observation of a metal-insulator transition in two dimensions prompts a re-examination of the theory of disordered interacting systems. We argue that the existing theory permits the existence of a metallic phase and…
The interplay between strong Coulomb interactions and randomness has been a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics. According to the scaling theory of localization, in two-dimensional systems of noninteracting or weakly…
The low-temperature resistivity of a SiGe 2-dimensional hole gas has been studied using the gate controlled carrier density as a parameter. A metal-insulator transition is seen both in the temperature and in the electric field behaviour.…
The organic salt $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ is considered a model system for metal-insulator transition due to electronic charge ordering at $T_{\rm CO}=135$~K. The optical properties obtained from polarized reflection measurements above…
It is well established that for non-interacting electrons, increasing disorder drives a metal into a gapless localized Anderson insulator. While in three dimensions a threshold in disorder must be crossed for the transition, in two…
Electronic phase separation (EPS) originates from an incomplete transformation between electronic phases, causing the inhomogeneous spatial distribution of electronic properties. In the system of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), the EPS…
The problem of screening the Coulomb interaction between charge carriers in type II heterostructures based on transition metal dichalcogenides is Analytically solved. At a sufficiently high density of charge carriers, the density dependence…
We develop a minimal theory for the recently observed metal-insulator transition (MIT) in two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (mTMD) using Coulomb disorder in the environment as the underlying mechanism.…
We have studied numerically the spectral correlations in a metallic phase and at the metal-insulator transition. We have calculated directly the two-point correlation function of the density of states $R(s,s')$. In the metallic phase, it is…
Two phenomena have been recently observed in high-mobility Si MOS structures: (1) strong enhancement of the metallic conduction at low temperatures, T < 2K, and (2) the scaling behavior of the temperature and electric field dependences of…
Determining the optical and electronic properties of strongly anisotropic materials with symmetries below orthorhombic remains challenging; generalized ellipsometry is a powerful technique in this regard. Here, we employ Mueller matrix…
We introduce an elementary model for the electrostatic self-consistent potential in a two-dimensional electron gas. By considering the perpendicular degree of freedom arising from the electron tunneling out of the system plane, we predict a…
The insulating state of matter can be probed by means of a ground state geometrical marker, which is closely related to the modern theory of polarization (based on a Berry phase). In the present work we show that this marker can be applied…
We provide a critical perspective on the collection of low-temperature transport phenomena in low-density two-dimensional semiconductor systems often referred to as the 2D metal-insulator transition. We discuss the physical mechanisms…