Alexander Pergament Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A researcher who coauthored an examination of the Mott criterion across different metal-insulator transitions. The work treats the relation between the effective electronic size and critical carrier concentration as a common thread between doped semiconductors and correlated compounds. Its discussion of chromium-doped vanadium oxide highlights how magnetic order and conducting behavior can change together.[ref]
Genrikh Stefanovich Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A coauthor of a study of the Mott criterion and the metal-insulator transition. The paper considers vanadium oxides alongside doped semiconductors, testing whether a criterion based on electronic length and concentration remains informative in strongly interacting materials. Such comparisons help separate a useful organizing estimate from a complete microscopic explanation of a transition.[ref]
Nadezhda Markova Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A coauthor of a study examining how widely the Mott criterion applies to the metal-insulator transition. The criterion compares a characteristic electronic length with the spacing implied by the carrier concentration. The paper discusses both doped semiconductors and strongly interacting compounds, emphasizing that the same compact relation must be interpreted in the physical setting of each material.[ref]
A hydrogenic donor has the effective Bohr radius of a hydrogenic donor
using the external .[ref] Increasing donor density causes donor states to overlap and screens their binding, allowing a metallic impurity system rather than isolated frozen-out donors.
Using the standard approximate Mott criterion, , gives
The factor 0.25 is an externally documented empirical criterion, not supplied exam data or an exact universal threshold.[ref] An order-of-magnitude overlap argument without that prefactor would give . Compensation, disorder and multivalley anisotropy affect a real material's transition; this estimate uses the scalar mass and permittivity actually supplied, without substituting other germanium parameters.