Density of states and critical behavior of the Coulomb glass

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Feb 13;102(6):067205. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.067205. Epub 2009 Feb 12.

Abstract

We present zero-temperature simulations for the single-particle density of states of the Coulomb glass. Our results in three dimensions are consistent with the Efros and Shklovskii prediction for the density of states. Finite-temperature Monte Carlo simulations show no sign of a thermodynamic glass transition down to low temperatures, in disagreement with mean-field theory. Furthermore, the random-displacement formulation of the model undergoes a transition into a distorted Wigner crystal for a surprisingly broad range of the disorder strength.