Physics: Metal-insulator transition in disordered two-dimensional electron systems

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5746, 2005, Pages 289-291

  Punnoose, Alexander ^a   Finkel'stein, Alexander M ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GAS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

DENSITY OF STATES; METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; SPIN SUCEPTIBILITY;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

METAL;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INSULATOR; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM;

EID: 26844431696     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115660     Document Type: Article

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