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Abstract A summary is given of what is now known about the existence of localized states for electrons in three-dimensional disordered systems, and what can be conjectured about the behaviour of the conductivity at zero temperature when this is finite but small.
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Thermal conductionCondensed matter physicsElectronZero (linguistics)ConductivityZero temperaturePhysicsMaterials scienceQuantum mechanicsPhilosophy
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- 1968
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- article
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 150
- Pages
- 1259-1268
- Citations
- 462
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N. F. Mott
(1968).
Conduction in non-crystalline systems.
Philosophical magazine
, 17
(150)
, 1259-1268.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14786436808223200
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- DOI
- 10.1080/14786436808223200