Tuesday, March 5, 2013

1303.0649 (Elias Lahoud et al.)

Emergent Novel Metallic State in a Disordered 2D Mott Insulator    [PDF]

Elias Lahoud, O. Nganba Meetei, K. B. Chaska, A Kanigel, Nandini Trivedi
It is well established that for non-interacting electrons, increasing disorder drives a metal into a gapless localized Anderson insulator. While in three dimensions a threshold in disorder must be crossed for the transition, in two dimensions and lower, the smallest amount of disorder destabilizes the metal. The nature of the metal-insulator transition in an interacting system remains unresolved. Here we explore the effect of disorder on a strongly correlated Mott insulator without changing the carrier concentration. Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements on copper intercalated single crystals of the layered dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2 reveal the presence of new delocalized states within the Mott gap. This is the first experimental realization of a novel disorder-induced metal that was theoretically predicted to exist between the Mott insulator and Anderson insulator.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0649

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