Kosterlitz-Thouless-type metal-insulator transition in a double-plane system with a random magnetic field

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Liu, WS [1 ]
Chen, T
Xiong, SJ
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[1] Nanjing Univ, Dept Phys, Nanjing 210093, Peoples R China
[2] Nanjing Univ, Natl Lab Solid State Microstruct, Nanjing 210093, Peoples R China
[3] CCAST, World Lab, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
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Kosterlitz-Thouless transition; double-plane system; random magnetic field;
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O4 [物理学];
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We study transport properties in a coupled double-plane system with one pure and the other random, in the presence of a transverse random magnetic field. The localization length and conductance of the system are calculated by using the finite-size scaling method combined with transfer matrix technique. We find that in the scaling transformation there is a set of fixed points in a continuous line, indicating that the system undergoes a disorder-driven Kosterlitz-Thouless-type metal-insulator transition.
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