Phase diagram, correlation gap, and critical properties of the Coulomb glass

We investigate the lattice Coulomb glass model in three dimensions via Monte Carlo simulations. No evidence for an equilibrium glass phase is found down to very low temperatures, although the correlation length increases rapidly near T = 0 . A charge-ordered phase exists at low disorder. The transit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Goethe, Martin, Palassini, Matteo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/139830
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/139830
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física de partícules
Diagrames de fase
Particle physics
Phase diagrams
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Sumario:We investigate the lattice Coulomb glass model in three dimensions via Monte Carlo simulations. No evidence for an equilibrium glass phase is found down to very low temperatures, although the correlation length increases rapidly near T = 0 . A charge-ordered phase exists at low disorder. The transition to this phase is consistent with the random field Ising universality class, which shows that the interaction is effectively screened at moderate temperature. For large disorder, the single-particle density of states near the Coulomb gap satisfies the scaling relation g ( ϵ , T ) = T δ f ( | ϵ | / T ) with δ = 2.01 ± 0.05 in agreement with the prediction of Efros and Shklovskii. For decreasing disorder, a crossover to a larger effective exponent occurs due to the proximity of the charge-ordered phase.