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]
The Mott criterion: So simple and yet so complex by Alexander Pergament and others. Abstract: criterion and paramagnetic-metal to antiferromagnetic-insulator transition
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]
The Mott criterion: So simple and yet so complex by Alexander Pergament and others. Byline and abstract: correlated compounds and chromium-doped vanadium oxide
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]
The Mott criterion: So simple and yet so complex by Alexander Pergament and others. Abstract: applications beyond heavily doped semiconductors
A hydrogenic donor has the effective Bohr radius of a hydrogenic donorusing the external .[ref]
CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants 2014 by National Institute of Standards and Technology. Bohr radius
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, , givesThe factor 0.25 is an externally documented empirical criterion, not supplied exam data or an exact universal threshold.[ref]
The Mott criterion: So simple and yet so complex by Alexander Pergament and others. Abstract and discussion of the effective-Bohr-radius criterion
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.