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Numerical Renormalisation Group
 and the
Metal-Insulator Transition
in Disordered Systems
  • Angus MacKinnon
  • Imperial College London
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Acknowledgements
  • Bernhard Kramer, Michael Schreiber, Keith Slevin, Tomi Ohtsuki, Isa Zarakheshev, Rudolf Römer, Kohei Itoh
  • Etienne Hofstetter, John Taylor, Alex Taylor, Jonathan Carter
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The Anderson Hamiltonian
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Mobility Edge
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Universality Classes
  • The original 3
    • Orthogonal
      • spinless
      • time-reversal symmetric
    • Unitary
      • broken time-reversal symmetry
      • Static or random magnetic field
    • Symplectic
      • spin-orbit coupling
  • The others
    • Bogoliubov-de Gennes
      • Superconductivity
    • ……
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Critical Behaviour
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Numerical Methods (a)
  • Transfer Matrix





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Data Analysis
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Fitted Data
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Conductance Fit
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Numerical Methods (b)
  • Level Spacing
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Scaling of level spacing distribution
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Experiment
  • Neutron transmutation doping (Kohei Itoh et al.)
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Experiment
Neutron Transmutation Doping
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Experiment 2
  • Same Ge:Ga







  • Boundary depends on compensation.


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Summary so far
  • Critical exponent can be calculated accurately: s = 1.58
  • Experiments now give good temperature driven scaling: s=1.0
  • What about 2D at low density?
  • What is wrong?
    • Theory and/or Numerics wrong?
    • Experiments wrong?
  • Something missing?
    • Interactions?
  • Good agreement between theory and experiment for QHE system only.



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Interacting Electrons
  • Number of states scales as 2N
  •        rather than N
  • Possible Approaches:
    • Recursive Green’s function like
      • Exact representation including all states
      • Not yet possible
    • Density Matrix Renormalisation Group like
      • Some results
    • Hubbard-Stratonovich like
      • d+1 dimensions
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Spinless Electrons in 1D
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Delocalisation in 1D
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Conclusions
  • Critical exponent for non-interacting systems can be evaluated accurately and reproducibly:  1.58
  • Experimental results becoming more reliable, but critical exponent = 1.0
  • Need calculations with disorder and interactions.
    • Initial steps being made.
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