The metal-insulator transition in quasicrystals

被引:20
作者
Lin, CR [1 ]
Chou, SL [1 ]
Lin, ST [1 ]
机构
[1] NATL CHENG KUNG UNIV,DEPT PHYS,TAINAN 70101,TAIWAN
关键词
ICOSAHEDRAL QUASI-CRYSTAL; AL-CU-FE; TUNNELING EXPERIMENTS; QUANTUM CORRECTIONS; ALLOYS; CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT; BEHAVIOR; SYSTEMS;
D O I
10.1088/0953-8984/8/49/002
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
We have found that the metal-insulator transition can occur in AI-Pd-Re alloys on choosing the annealing conditions appropriately, and McMillan's scaling theory of the metal-insulator transition in amorphous materials can be applied to quasicrystals equally well. That is, the low-temperature conductivity on the metallic side of the metal-insulator transition varies as sigma(T)=sigma(0)(1+root/Delta), and the determined value of the correlation gap Delta, spanning about five orders of magnitude, is proportional to the inverse of the square of the zero-temperature resistivity rho(0).
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页码:L725 / L730
页数:6
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