Transition from insulating to non-insulating temperature dependence of the conductivity in granular metals

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2002 EDP Sciences
, , Citation K. B. Efetov and A. Tschersich 2002 EPL 59 114 DOI 10.1209/epl/i2002-00166-9

0295-5075/59/1/114

Abstract

We consider interaction effects in a granular normal metal at not very low temperatures. Assuming that all weak localization effects are suppressed by the temperature we replace the initial Hamiltonian by a proper functional of phases and study the possibility for a phase transition depending on the tunneling conductance g. It is demonstrated for any dimension that, while at small g the conductivity decays with temperature exponentially, its temperature dependence is logarithmic at large g. The formulae obtained are compared with an existing experiment and a good agreement is found.

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10.1209/epl/i2002-00166-9