Ground-state energy and compressibility of a disordered two-dimensional electron gas
Date
2007
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Source Title
International Journal of Modern Physics B
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0217-9792
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World Scientific Publishing
Volume
21
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13-14
Pages
2134 - 2144
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English
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Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) electron systems in the presence of disorder are of interest in connection with the observed metal-insulator transition in such systems. We use density functional theory in its local-spin density approximation (LSDA) to calculate the ground-state energy of a 2D electron system in the presence of remote charged impurities which up on averaging provides disorder. The inverse compressibility calculated from the ground-state energy exhibits a minimum at a critical density controlled by the disorder strength. Our findings are in agreement with experimental results.