• DOI:10.1209/epl/i2004-10267-5
• Corpus ID: 118993261

Effects of Scale-Free Disorder on the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition

@inproceedings{Ndawana2004EffectsOS,
  title={Effects of Scale-Free Disorder on the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition},
  author={Macleans L. Ndawana and R. A. Roemer and Michael Schreiber},
  year={2004}
}

• M. L. Ndawana, R. Roemer, M. Schreiber
• Published 1 February 2004
• Physics

We investigate the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization via a modified transfer-matrix method in the presence of scale-free diagonal disorder characterized by a disorder correlation function $g(r)$ decaying asymptotically as $r^{-\alpha}$. We study the dependence of the localization-length exponent $\nu$ on the correlation-strength exponent $\alpha$. % For fixed disorder $W$, there is a critical $\alpha_{\rm c}$, such that for $\alpha<\alpha_{\rm c}$, $\nu=2/\alpha$ and for $\alpha>\alpha_{\rm c}$, $\nu$ remains that of the uncorrelated system in accordance with the extended Harris criterion. At the band center, $\nu$ is independent of $\alpha$ but equal to that of the uncorrelated system. The physical mechanisms leading to this different behavior are discussed.