Configuration space in electron glasses

We study numerically the configuration space at low energy of electron glasses. We consider systems with Coulomb interactions, short–range interactions and no interactions. First, we calculate the integrated density of configurations as a function of energy. At a given energy, this density is smalle...

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Autores: Pérez Garrido, Antonio, Ortuño Ortín, Miguel, Díaz Sánchez, Anastasio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT)
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital UPCT
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/630
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10317/630
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cristales de electrónes
Cristales Coulomb
Configuración de espacios
Temperatura
Interacciones Coulomb
Energía
Crystals of electrons
Coulomb Crystals
Configuration space
Temperature
Coulomb interactions
Energy
Física Aplicada
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Sumario:We study numerically the configuration space at low energy of electron glasses. We consider systems with Coulomb interactions, short–range interactions and no interactions. First, we calculate the integrated density of configurations as a function of energy. At a given energy, this density is smaller for Coulomb glasses than for short-range systems, which in turn is smaller than for non– interacting systems. We analyze how the site occupancy varies with the number of configurations. Through this study we estimate the number of particles involved in a typical low–energy transition between configurations. This number increases with system size for long range interactions, while it is basically constant for a short-range interaction. Finally we calculate the density of metastable configurations, i.e. valleys, classified according to their degree of stability.