The relative importance of electron-electron interactions compared to disorder in the two-dimensional "metallic" state

Abstract

The effect of substrate bias and surface gate voltage on the low temperature resistivity of a Si-MOSFET is studied for electron concentrations where the resistivity increases with increasing temperature. This technique offers two degrees of freedom for controlling the electron concentration and the device mobility, thereby providing a means to evaluate the relative importance of electron-electron interactions and disorder in this so-called ``metallic'' regime. For temperatures well below the Fermi temperature, the data obey a scaling law where the disorder parameter ($k_{\mathrm{F}}l$), and not the concentration, appears explicitly. This suggests that interactions, although present, do not alter the Fermi-liquid properties of the system fundamentally. Furthermore, this experimental observation is reproduced in results of calculations based on temperature-dependent screening, in the context of Drude-Boltzmann theory.

5 pages, 6 figures

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