Flow diagram of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 707-710

  Anissimova, S ^a   Kravchenko, S V ^a   Punnoose, A ^b   Finkel'Stein, A M ^c   Klapwijk, T M ^d  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; FLOWCHARTING; GROUP THEORY; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

FITTING PARAMETERS; MAGNETOCONDUCTANCE; METALLIC BEHAVIOUR; METALLIC TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP THEORY; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 34948898552     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys685     Document Type: Article

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