Structure and Dynamics Group

We study the behavior of the thermal transport properties in three-dimensional disordered systems close to the metal-insulator transition within linear response. Using a suitable form for the energy-dependent conductivity σ, we show that the value of the dynamical scaling exponent for noninteracting disordered systems such as the Anderson model of localization can be reproduced. Furthermore, the values of the thermopower S have the right order of magnitude close to the transition as compared to the experimental results. A sign change in the thermoelectric power S — as is often observed in experiments — can also be modeled within the linear response formulation using modified experimental σ data as input.