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Coulomb Gap at Finite Temperatures
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)
  • Masoud Sarvestani
  • Michael Schreiber
  • Thomas Vojta, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

The Coulomb glass, a model of interacting localized electrons in a random potential, exhibits a soft gap, the Coulomb gap, in the single-particle density of states (DOS) g(ε,T) close to the chemical potential µ. In this paper we investigate the Coulomb gap at finite temperatures T by means of a Monte Carlo method. We find that the Coulomb gap fills with increasing temperature. In contrast to previous results the temperature dependence is, however, much stronger than g(µ,T)~TD-1 as predicted analytically. It can be described by power laws with the exponents 1.75 ± 0.1 for the two-dimensional model and 2.7 ± 0.1 for the three-dimensional model. Nevertheless, the relation g(µ,T)~g(ε,T=0) with |ε - µ| = kBT seems to be valid, since energy dependence of the DOS at low temperatures has also been found to follow power laws with these exponents.

Department(s)
Physics
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 1995 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
8-1-1995
Publication Date
01 Aug 1995
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Citation Information
Masoud Sarvestani, Michael Schreiber and Thomas Vojta. "Coulomb Gap at Finite Temperatures" Physical Review B (Condensed Matter) Vol. 52 Iss. 6 (1995) p. R3820 - R3823 ISSN: 0163-1829
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas-vojta/59/