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We derive the theory of the quantum (zero temperature) superconductor to metal transition in disordered materials when the resistance of the normal metal near criticality is small compared to the quantum of resistivity. This can occur most…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Spivak , P. Oreto , S. A. Kivelson

A theory of the zero-temperature superconductor-metal transition is developed for an array of superconductive islands (of size d) coupled via a disordered two-dimensional conductor with the dimensionless conductance g>>1. At T=0…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. V. Feigel'man , A. I. Larkin , M. A. Skvortsov

We report a remarkable symmetry between the resistivity and conductivity on opposite sides of the B=0 metal-insulator transition in a two-dimensional electron gas in high-mobility silicon MOSFET's. This symmetry implies that the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Simonian , S. V. Kravchenko , M. P. Sarachik

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

Linear temperature dependence of transport coefficients in metals is often ascribed to non-Fermi-liquid physics. Here we demonstrate the $T$-linear behavior of nonlocal conductivity in a clean 2D electron fluid, where carrier collisions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Serhii Kryhin , Qiantan Hong , Leonid Levitov

The superconductor-insulator transition in two dimensions has been widely investigated as a paradigmatic quantum phase transition. The topic remains controversial, however, because many experiments exhibit a metallic regime with saturating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 C. G. L. Bøttcher , F. Nichele , M. Kjaergaard , H. J. Suominen , J. Shabani , C. J. Palmstrøm , C. M. Marcus

Using several independent methods, we find that the metal-insulator transition occurs in the strongly-interacting two-valley two-dimensional electron system in ultra-high mobility SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells in zero magnetic field. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-13 A. A. Shashkin , S. V. Kravchenko

An analytic theory is developed for the diagonal conductivity $\sigma_{xx}$ of a 2D conductor which takes account of the localized states in the broaden Landau levels. In the low-field region $\sigma_{xx}$ display the Shubnikov-de Haas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Gvozdikov

It has been puzzling that the resistivity of high mobility two-dimensional(2D) carrier systems in semiconductors with low carrier density often exhibits a large increase followed by a decrease when the temperature ($T$) is raised above a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Richard L. J. Qiu , Xuan P. A. Gao , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West

The effect of disorder on a class of transition metal oxides described by a single orbital Hubbard model at half filling is investigated. The phases are characterized by the nature of the electronic and spin excitations. The frequency and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-23 Kohjiro Kobayashi , Byounghak Lee , Nandini Trivedi

We report measurements of the resistance of silicon MOSFETs as a function of temperature in high parallel magnetic fields where the 2D system of electrons has been shown to be fully spin-polarized. A magnetic field suppresses the metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 K. M. Mertes , Hairong Zheng , S. A. Vitkalov , M. P. Sarachik , T. M. Klapwijk

The low-temperature conductivity of low-density, high-mobility, two-dimensional hole systems in GaAs was studied. We explicitly show that the metal-insulator transition, observed in these systems, is characterized by a well-defined critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Hanein , D. Shahar , J. Yoon , C. C. Li , D. C. Tsui , Hadas Shtrikman

A detailed investigation of the metallic behaviour in high quality GaAs-AlGaAs two dimensional hole systems reveals the presence of quantum corrections to the resistivity at low temperatures. Despite the low density ($r_{s}>10$) and high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Y. Simmons , A. R. Hamilton , M. Pepper , E. H. Linfield , P. D. Rose , D. A. Ritchie , .

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.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Senz , U. Doetsch , U. Gennser , T. Ihn , T. Heinzel , K. Ensslin , R. Hartmann , D. Gruetzmacher

We perform combined resistivity and compressibility studies of two-dimensional hole and electron systems which show the apparent metal-insulator transition - a crossover in the sign of dR/dT with changing density. No thermodynamic anomalies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. D. Allison , E. A. Galaktionov , A. K. Savchenko , S. S. Safonov , M. M. Fogler , M. Y. Simmons , D. A. Ritchie

Here we study the single-particle, electronic transport and optical properties of a gapped system described by a simple two-band Hamiltonian with inverted valence bands. We analyze its properties in the three-dimensional (3D) and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Zoran Rukelj , Ana Akrap

The conductance of an open quench-disordered two-dimensional (2D) electron system subject to an in-plane magnetic field is calculated within the framework of conventional Fermi liquid theory applied to actually a three-dimensional system of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. V. Tarasov

We study the temperature dependence of the conductivity of the 2D electronic solid. In realistic samples, a domain structure forms in the solid and each domain randomly orients in the absence of the in-plane field. At higher temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shi-Jie Yang , Yue Yu

We study transport in a Weyl semimetal with donor and acceptor impurities. At sufficiently high temperatures transport is dominated by electron-electron interactions, while the low-temperature resistivity comes from the scattering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Ya. I. Rodionov , S. V. Syzranov

When the electron density of highly crystalline thin films is tuned by chemical doping or ionic liq- uid gating, interesting effects appear including unconventional superconductivity, sizeable spin-orbit coupling, competition with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 G. Dezi , N. Scopigno , S. Caprara , M. Grilli