A novel conductivity mechanism of highly disordered carbon systems based on an investigation of graph zeta function

作者：Matsutani Shigeki^*; Sato Iwao

来源：Physics Letters A, 2017, 381(36): 3107-3111.

DOI：10.1016/j.physleta.2017.07.039

• Graphite pieces
• Graph zeta function
• Random matrix theory
• Hopping conductivity
• Tight binding method

In the previous report (Matsutani and Suzuki, 2000 [21]), by proposing the mechanism under which electric conductivity is caused by the activational hopping conduction with the Wigner surmise of the level statistics, the temperature-dependent of electronic conductivity of a highly disordered carbon system was evaluated including apparent metal-insulator transition. Since the system consists of small pieces of graphite, it was assumed that the reason why the level statistics appears is due to the behavior of the quantum chaos in each granular graphite. In this article, we revise the assumption and show another origin of the Wigner surmise, which is more natural for the carbon system based on a recent investigation of graph zeta function in graph theory. Our method can be applied to the statistical treatment of the electronic properties of the randomized molecular system in general.

• 出版日期2017-9-25