Influence of the metal-insulator transition on normal state electronic transport of HTS

The nature of the normal state properties of HTS is still not well established. It is generally accepted that, as doping increases, the HTS evolve from an anti-ferromagnetic insulator to a “strange metal” with a pseudo-gap to a conventional Fermi liquid. The “strange metal” phase is the subject of a great deal of research. In this presentation we will demonstrate that the normal state electronic transport properties of the HTS are consistent with materials near the disorder driven metal-insulator transition