Magnetic-field effects on strongly localized electrons
- 9 April 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (15) , 1816-1819
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.1816
Abstract
The magnetic-field response of strongly localized electrons is probed by examining the quantum interference of forward scattering paths. With no disorder, there is a rich structure in the tunneling rate, which is sensitively dependent upon commensurability of the flux per plaquette with the flux quantum. With nonmagnetic impurities, there is a positive magnetoconductance, and the localization length appears to increase as . With impurities breaking time-reversal symmetry, the distribution of tunneling rates is not changed by the magnetic field.
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