UNIVERSAL SPECTRAL CORRELATIONS AT THE MOBILITY EDGE

Citation
Ve. Kravtsov et al., UNIVERSAL SPECTRAL CORRELATIONS AT THE MOBILITY EDGE, Physical review letters, 72(6), 1994, pp. 888-891
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
72
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
888 - 891
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)72:6<888:USCATM>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
We demonstrate the level statistics in the vicinity of the Anderson tr ansition in d > 2 dimensions to be universal and drastically different from both Wigner-Dyson in the metallic regime and Poisson in the insu lator regime. The variance of the number of levels N in a given energy interval with [N] >> 1 is proved to behave as (N)gamma where gamma = 1 - (nud)-1 and nu is the correlation length exponent. The inequality gamma < 1, shown to be required by an exact sum rule, results from non trivial cancellations (due to the causality and scaling requirements) in calculating the two-level correlation function.