Hidden Scaling in the Quantum Hall Metal-Insulator Transition
arXiv:cond-mat/0307736 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.69.045109
Abstract
Scaling properties of the quantum Hall metal-insulator transition are severely affected by finite size effects in small systems. Surprisingly, despite the narrow spatial range where probability structure functions exhibit multifractal scaling, we clearly verify the existence of extended self-similarity -- a hidden infrared scaling phenomenon related to the peculiar form of the crossover at the onset of nonmultifractal behavior. As finite size effects get stronger for structure functions with negative orders, the parabolic approximation for the multifractal spectrum loses accuracy. However, by means of an extended self-similarity analysis, an improved evaluation of the multifractal exponents is attained for negative orders too, rendering them consistent with previous results, which rely on computations performed for considerably larger systems.
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