標題: Electronic transport in insulating AlPdRe quasicrystals
作者: Rosenbaum, R
Murphy, T
Brandt, B
Wang, CR
Zhong, YL
Wu, SW
Lin, ST
Lin, JJ
物理研究所
Institute of Physics
公開日期: 18-Feb-2004
摘要: Resistivity and magnetoresistance measurements have been performed on insulating icosahedral AlPdRe quasicrystal (QC) bar samples. At temperatures in the range 300 K greater than or equal to T greater than or equal to 50 K, the resistivities follow a simple inverse temperature law: rho(T) rho(0)/T(1.0+/-0.1). Below 1 K, the resistivity of a weakly insulating sample exhibited a simple inverse temperature law where rho(T) = rho0/T-0.33 and not an activated variable-range hopping (VRH) law. Strongly insulating samples exhibit saturation of their resistivities to finite values as T --> 0 K. These saturation resistivity values are believed to arise from the presence of a second metallic phase located within the quasicrystal's structure. By extrapolating the measured resistivities at 22 mK to absolute zero, the saturation conductivity values were estimated at T = 0 K and subtracted from the conductivity data points. These 'corrected' data, corresponding only to the QC phase, were found to follow activated VRH laws, having hopping exponents y that vary in the range 0.18 less than or equal to y less than or equal to 0.43. The activated VRH behaviours are observed only below 1 K. The magnetoresistances (MRs) of these samples are also anomalous. The MRs can be explained by including contributions from both the saturation conductivity values and from the QC MR ratios, estimated using the wavefunction shrinkage model.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/16/6/012
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/27022
ISSN: 0953-8984
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/16/6/012
期刊: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume: 16
Issue: 6
起始頁: 821
結束頁: 831
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