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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 102, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.216601
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- RFBR [09-02-01235]
- Spanish DGI [FIS2006-11126]
- Fundacion Seneca [08832/PI/08]
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Motivated by anomalously large conductivity anisotropy in layered materials, we propose a simple model of randomly spaced potential barriers (mimicking stacking faults) with isotropic impurities in between the barriers. We solve this model both numerically and analytically by utilizing an exact solution for the conductivity of a one-dimensional disordered system. In the absence of bulk disorder, electron motion in the out-of-plane direction is localized. Bulk disorder destroys one-dimensional localization. As a result, the out-of-plane conductivity is finite and scales linearly with the scattering rate by bulk impurities until planar and bulk disorder become comparable. The ac out-of-plane conductivity is of a manifestly non-Drude form: the real part starts from finite value at zero frequency and has a maximum at the frequency corresponding to the scattering rate by potential barriers.
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