大槻 東巳

The Anderson transition is a disorder driven quantum phase transition between metallic and insulating phases. In contrast to the common belief that two dimensional (2D) systems are always insulating and that the Anderson transition does not occur in 2D, in certain universality classes 2D systems can be metallic. We review the recent development of the theory of the Anderson transition in 2D. There are ten universality classes: three Wigner-Dyson classes, three chiral universality classes, and four Bogoliubov-de Gennes classes. We report results for critical exponents and distributions of conductance for the symplectic universality class. We emphasize that, on the one hand, the existence of a topological insulating phase does not alter the value of the critical exponent, while on the other, it strongly affects the form of the conductance distribution at the transition.