https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-21059-6
Regular Article
The role of power-law correlated disorder in the Anderson metal-insulator transition
Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of
Technology, 09107
Chemnitz,
Germany
a
Current address: Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of
Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden. e-mail: alexander.croy@chalmers.se
Received:
20
December
2011
Received in final form:
8
March
2012
Published online:
24
May
2012
We study the influence of scale-free correlated disorder on the metal-insulator transition in the Anderson model of localization. We use standard transfer matrix calculations and perform finite-size scaling of the largest inverse Lyapunov exponent to obtain the localization length for respective 3D tight-binding systems. The density of states is obtained from the full spectrum of eigenenergies of the Anderson Hamiltonian. We discuss the phase diagram of the metal-insulator transition and the influence of the correlated disorder on the critical exponents.
Key words: Solid State and Materials
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