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Multifractality and quantum-to-classical crossover in the Coulomb anomaly at the Mott-Anderson metal-insulator transition
Vladimir Kravtsov, ICTP Trieste, Italy
19.11.2013 at 10:00
We study the interaction driven localization transition, which a recent experiment in Ga_{1-x}Mn_{x}As has shown to come along with multifractal behavior of the local density of states (LDoS) and the intriguing persistence of critical correlations close to the Fermi level. We show that the bulk of these phenomena can be understood within a Hartree-Focktreatment of disordered, Coulomb-interacting spinless fermions. A scaling analysis of the LDoS correlation demonstrates multifractalitywith correlation dimension d_{2}=1.57, which is significantly larger than at a non-interacting Anderson transition. At the interaction-driven transition the states at the Fermi level become critical, while the bulkof the spectrum remains delocalized up to substantially stronger interactions. The mobility edge stays close to the Fermi energy in a wide range of disorder strength, as the interaction strength is further increased. The localization transition is concomitant with the quantum-to-classical crossover in the shape of the pseudo-gap in the tunneling density of states, and with the proliferation of metastable HF solutions that suggest the onset of a glassy regime with poor screeningproperties.
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