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The role of power-law correlated disorder in the Anderson metal-insulator transition

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We study the influence of scale-free correlated disorder on the metal-insulator transition in the Anderson model of localization. We use standard transfer matrix calculations and perform finite-size scaling of the largest inverse Lyapunov exponent to obtain the localization length for respective 3D tight-binding systems. The density of states is obtained from the full spectrum of eigenenergies of the Anderson Hamiltonian. We discuss the phase diagram of the metal-insulator transition and the influence of the correlated disorder on the critical exponents.

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Croy, A., Cain, P. & Schreiber, M. The role of power-law correlated disorder in the Anderson metal-insulator transition. Eur. Phys. J. B 85, 165 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-21059-6

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