Multifractal analysis of disorder induced metal-insulator transitions

Ulrich Fastenrath, Martin Janβen and Werner Pook

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1992, vol. 191, issue 1, 401-405

Abstract: We give a physical picture for the multifractal nature of mesoscopic observables at the disorder induced metal-insulator transition (MIT) and present their scaling laws in terms of normalized observables. We calculate the f(α) spectrum of the Thouless numbers at the MIT point of the lowest Landau band of a quantum Hall system and thereby establish an alternative method to finite size scaling for calculating critical exponents. We conclude that the MIT of a quantum Hall system shows universal one-parameter scaling.

Date: 1992
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378437192905577
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:191:y:1992:i:1:p:401-405

DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90557-7

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().