Thermodynamic Analysis of Metal-Insulator Transitions. Effect of Changes in the Density of States Function

• Authors: R. Hoehn , J. Honig
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Prior theories of metal-insulator transitions by Spałek et al. were extended to include quartic terms in the temperature and by introducing two different density of state functions. The effects of these extensions on low-temperature metal-insulator transitions and on reentrant metallic behavior in solids have been investigated.

Keywords

EN

71.10.Hf; 71.20.-b; 71.10.Ay; 71.30.+h; 71.45.Gm

Discipline

• 71.20.-b: Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids
• 71.30.+h: Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions
• 71.10.Ay: Fermi-liquid theory and other phenomenological models
• 71.45.Gm: Exchange, correlation, dielectric and magnetic response functions, plasmons
• 71.10.Hf: Non-Fermi-liquid ground states, electron phase diagrams and phase transitions in model systems

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 115
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 745-754

Dates

published

2009-03

received

2009-01-23

Contributors

author

R. Hoehn

• Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 47907, USA

author

J. Honig

• Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 47907, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.115.745