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Spin-Orbit Assisted Variable-Range Hopping in Strong Magnetic Fields

Yigal Meir, Boris L. Altshuler

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9607211

Abstract

It is shown that in the presence of strong magnetic fields, spin-orbit scattering causes a sharp increase in the effective density of states in the variable-range hopping regime when temperature decreases. This effect leads to an exponential enhancement of the conductance above its value without spin-orbit scattering. Thus an experimental study of the hopping conductivity in a fixed, large magnetic field, is a sensitive tool to explore the spin-orbit scattering parameters in the strongly localized regime.

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