{
  "id": "cond-mat/9904393",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-04-27T15:46:09.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-04-27T15:46:09.000Z",
  "title": "Meta-Percolation and Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions",
  "authors": [
    "Junren Shi",
    "Song He",
    "X. C. Xie"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 5 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "According to the scaling theory of localization, all quantum electronic states are localized in two-dimensional (2D) systems. One consequence of the theory is that there is no quantum percolation transition in 2D. However, in a real system at a finite temperature, electron phase coherent length is finite and the system is between quantum and classical. We find, in such a 2D system, a metal-insulator transition (MIT) caused by a novel type of percolation, meta-percolation. The relevance to recently observed 2D MIT is also discussed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-04-27T15:46:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "metal-insulator transition",
      "meta-percolation",
      "dimensions",
      "electron phase coherent length",
      "quantum percolation transition"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "1999cond.mat..4393S"
    }
  }
}