Pseudogap and metal-insulator transitions in doped semiconductors

A. I. Agafonov and É. A. Manykin

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Abstract

The electronic spectrum of a doped semiconductor described by the Anderson-Holstein impurity model and its conductivity derived from the Kubo linear response theory are calculated. Two characteristic temperatures depending on the doping level x are found in the phase diagram, T PG and T λ(x). The pseudogap that opens in the single-particle spectrum at low doping levels and temperatures closes at the lower one, T PG. The pseudogap state of an insulator is attributed to spin fluctuations in a doped compound. At the higher characteristic temperature T λ(x),, spin fluctuations vanish and the doped compound becomes a paramagnetic poor metal. Two distinct metal-insulator crossovers between semiconductor-like and metallic temperature dependence of resistivity are found. An insulator-to-poor-metal transition occurs at T *(x) ≈ T λ(x). A poor-metal-to-insulator transition at a lower temperature is attributed to the temperature dependence of density of states in the pseudogap. It is shown that both transitions are observed in La2−x SrxCUO4.

PACS numbers  71.30.+h - 74.72.-h

Original Russian Text © A.I. Agafonov, É.A. Manykin, 2006, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 129, No. 1, pp. 183–196.

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