Competition between the Mott transition and Anderson localization in one-dimensional disordered interacting electron systems.

Abstract

The competition between the Mott transition and the Anderson localization in one dimensional electron systems is studied based upon the bosonization and the renormalization group method. The beta function is calculated up to the second order in the strength of diagonal disorder by using a replica trick. It is found that the sufficiently strong forward scattering by random impurities destroys the Mott-Hubbard gap, and the backward scattering gives rise to the Anderson localization for the resulting gapless state. On the other hand, if the Umklapp interaction is strong enough, the Mott insulating state still overwhelms the Anderson localization.