Dielectric breakdown and avalanches at nonequilibrium metal-insulator transitions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 27, 2011, Pages

  Shekhawat, Ashivni ^a   Papanikolaou, Stefanos ^a   Zapperi, Stefano ^b,c   Sethna, James P ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; CRITICAL POINTS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN MODEL; FINITE TEMPERATURES; INSULATOR TO METAL; MOTT TRANSITIONS; NANO GRAINS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; QUENCHED DISORDER; RANDOM THRESHOLD; TUNING VOLTAGES;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 84855284887     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.276401     Document Type: Article

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