Effects of Scale-Free Disorder on the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition

Abstract

We investigate the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization via a modified transfer-matrix method in the presence of scale-free diagonal disorder characterized by a disorder correlation function $g(r)$ decaying asymptotically as $r^{-\alpha }$. We study the dependence of the localization-length exponent $\nu$ on the correlation-strength exponent $\alpha$. % For fixed disorder $W$, there is a critical ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{c}}$, such that for $\alpha <{\alpha }_{\mathrm{c}}$, $\nu =2/\alpha$ and for $\alpha >{\alpha }_{\mathrm{c}}$, $\nu$ remains that of the uncorrelated system in accordance with the extended Harris criterion. At the band center, $\nu$ is independent of $\alpha$ but equal to that of the uncorrelated system. The physical mechanisms leading to this different behavior are discussed.

submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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