Critical Behavior of Density of States in Disordered System with Localized Electrons
- 28 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (22) , 3014-3017
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.3014
Abstract
The Coulomb gap in the density of states (DOS) of localized electrons is studied at different magnitudes of an external disorder . Computer modeling has been done to find the DOS at the chemical potential as a function of temperature and . At a given filling factor all curves obtained at different values of and even from different distribution functions of the external disorder cross each other at one temperature . We show that obeys an equation with a fixed point. At this point the subsystem of electrons with energies close to the chemical potential becomes incompressible. A weak singularity of thermodynamic functions at is predicted and found by modeling.
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