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A mean-field model for the electron glass Yoseph Imry , work with Ariel Amir and Yuval Oreg

Common features of glassy models Randomness, frustration. Many states close to the ground state. Aging and memory effects: relaxation is slower if perturbation lasts longer. Physical examples Various magnetic materials. Packing of hard spheres. Electron glass! (long-ranged interactions, but not infinite!) OUR PROBLEM HERE! General questions: structure of states, out-of-equilibrium dynamics?

Experimental motivation Disordered samples, excited out-of-equilibrium. Measured logarithmic decay of physical observable (conductance, capacitance) from times of a few seconds to a day! Similar results for other systems, such as granular Al. Z. Ovadyahu et al. (2003) InO samples What are the ingredients leading to slow relaxations? T. Grenet (2004) Granular Al samples

Electron Glass System Courtesy of Z. Ovadyahu Disordered InO samples High carrier densities, Coulomb interactions may be important. Vaknin, Ovadyahu and Pollak, 1998

The model phonon Strong localization due to disorder randomly positioned sites, on-site disorder. Coulomb interactions are important (e.g.: Efros-Shklovskii) Phonons induce transitions between configurations. Interference (quantum) effects neglected. e.g: Ovadyahu and Pollak (PRB, 2003) M. Muller and S. Pankov (PRB, 2007)

Efros-Shklovskii argument , T=0 = occupied site = unoccupied site Cost of moving an electron: For ground state: Assume finite density of states at Ef Contradiction. Upper bound is

Coulomb gap- estimation of scales For a 2D systems where the structural disorder is more important: In a typical experiment W~ 10 nm, n ~1020cm-3, T~ 4K The Coulomb gap should be observable. The system is close to 2D.

Experimental manifestation 2D: Butko et al. (PRL 84, 2000) 3D: Massey et al. (PRL, 1995) Ben Chorin et al. (PRB, 1992)

Mean-field approximation - Equilibrium Detailed balance leads to Fermi-Dirac statistics (fj). Self-consistent set of equations for the energies: Many solutions (valleys). Kogan, PRB 57, 9736, 1998 – exp increase with N, in a numerical study. Produces all features of Coulomb gap, incl temperature dependence (figure shown is for half filling).

Temp dependence of Coulomb gap, mean field

Mean-field approximation - Dynamics contains all the interaction information We saw: Mean-field works well for statics! The dynamics will make the system ‘dig’ its Coulomb gap, eventually. Many locally stable points (‘glassy’)

Solution near locally stable point Close enough to the equilibrium (locally) stable point, one can linearize the equations, leading to the equation: Negligible (checked numerically) The sum of every column vanishes (particle number conservation) Off diagonals are positive all eigenvalues are negative (Stability!)

Solution for dynamics The eigenvalue distribution will determine the relaxation. Solving numerically shows a distribution proportional to : Implication on dynamics:

Effect of Interactions Slow relaxations occur also without interactions. Interactions push the distribution to (s)lower values.

Distance matrices- definition ( cf. M. Mezard, G. Parisi, and A. Zee, Nucl. Phys. B 3, 689, 1999). Off diagonals: (Euclidean distances in D dimensions) Sum of every column vanishes What is the eigenvalue distribution?

Distance (Euclidean) matrices- eigenvalue distribution Low density system basically a set of independent dipoles. Calculation of the nearest-neighbor probability distribution will give approximately the eigenvalue distribution. Calculation gives, for exponential dependence on the distance: (1D) (2D) Heuristic calc—almost the same!

Is this more general? Benford’s law: for many physical properties the log is uniformly distributed. Examples: river lengths, phone bills, 1/f noise etc. Implies: distribution of first digit More concretely: What happens when we take multi-particle relaxations into account?

Connection to conductance relaxation? If we assume: The energies of sites are changed, we get a finite DOS at the chemical potential. logarithmic decay of the conductance? Other mechanisms might be involved.

Mean-field approximation – steady state Miller-Abrahams resistance network: essentially mean-field Find ni and Ei such that the systems is in steady state. equilibrium rates Leads to variable-range-hopping: A. Miller and E. Abrahams, (Phys. Rev. 1960)

Variable Range Hopping – back of the envelope derivation Einstein formula: The typical diffusion coefficient: Repeating the optimization with a Coulomb gap:

Rentzsch et al. (2001) Ovadyahu (2003)

VRH (Mott) to E-S Crossover, from mean-field

Aging Assume a parameter of the system is slightly modified (e.g: Vg) After time tw it is changed back. What is the repsonse? Initially, system is at some local minimum

Aging Assume a parameter of the system is slightly modified (e.g: Vg) After time tw it is changed back. What is the repsonse? At time t=0 the potential changes, and the system begins to roll towards the new minimum

Aging Assume a parameter of the system is slightly modified (e.g: Vg) After time tw it is changed back. What is the repsonse? At time tw the system reached some new configuration

Aging Assume a parameter of the system is slightly modified (e.g: Vg) After time tw it is changed back. What is the repsonse? Now the potential is changed back to the initial form- the particle is not in the minima! The longer tw, the further it got away from it. It will begin to roll down the hill.

Results Simple aging (function of t/tw) log(t) turns to a power-law at large times Not stretched exponential! Fits experimental data! Data courtesy of Z. Ovadyhau

Conclusions and future work Dynamics near locally stable point: slow, log t, relaxations. How universal is the distribution? We believe: a very relevant RMT class. Slow dynamics may arise without transitions between different metastable states. (work in progress). How will the inter-state transitions connect with intra-state ones? It is interesting to see if the mean-field model can predict the ‘two-dip’ experiment, where the system shows memory effects. More details: arXiv 0712.0895, Phys. Rev. B 77, 1, 2008