Absence of Disorder-Driven Metal-Insulator Transitions in Simple Holographic Models

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 22, 2015, Pages

  Grozdanov, Sašo ^a   Lucas, Andrew ^b   Sachdev, Subir ^b,c   Schalm, Koenraad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; HOLOGRAPHY; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

EINSTEIN-MAXWELL THEORY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; FINITE TEMPERATURES; HOLOGRAPHIC MODEL; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; SPATIAL DIMENSION; SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 84949651305     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.221601     Document Type: Article

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