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Two-dimensional metal-insulator transition as a percolation transition in a high-mobility electron system

S Das Sarma1, M P Lilly, E H Hwang

  • 1Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|May 21, 2005
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