{
  "id": "cond-mat/0609161",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2006-09-07T08:46:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-04-13T03:19:12.000Z",
  "title": "Multifractality and Conformal Invariance at 2D Metal-Insulator Transition in the Spin-Orbit Symmetry Class",
  "authors": [
    "H. Obuse",
    "A. R. Subramaniam",
    "A. Furusaki",
    "I. A. Gruzberg",
    "A. W. W. Ludwig"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 4 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 156802 (2007)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.156802",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the multifractality (MF) of critical wave functions at boundaries and corners at the metal-insulator transition (MIT) for noninteracting electrons in the two-dimensional (2D) spin-orbit (symplectic) universality class. We find that the MF exponents near a boundary are different from those in the bulk. The exponents at a corner are found to be directly related to those at a straight boundary through a relation arising from conformal invariance. This provides direct numerical evidence for conformal invariance at the 2D spin-orbit MIT. The presence of boundaries modifies the MF of the whole sample even in the thermodynamic limit.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2007-04-13T03:19:12.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "conformal invariance",
      "2d metal-insulator transition",
      "spin-orbit symmetry class",
      "multifractality",
      "2d spin-orbit mit"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}