E-Hopping (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

E-Hopping

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Illustration of a Coulomb glass system: Electrons (red) in a random landscape, interacting with each other (yellow-orange lines). Noise of the resistance of the system is created by collective "hopping" of the electrons (green arrow).

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