%0 Journal Article %@ 0031-9007 %A Baenninger, M %A Ghosh, A %A Pepper, M %A Beere, HE %A Farrer, I %A Ritchie, DA %D 2008 %F discovery:1314472 %I AMER PHYSICAL SOC %J PHYS REV LETT %K METAL-INSULATOR-TRANSITION, QUANTUM HALL LIQUID, ANDERSON TRANSITION, GROUND-STATE, CONDUCTIVITY, DENSITY, GAS, SYSTEMS, LATTICE, FIELD %N 1 %T Low-temperature collapse of electron localization in two dimensions %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1314472/ %V 100 %X We report direct experimental evidence that the insulating phase of a disordered, yet strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system becomes unstable at low temperatures. As the temperature decreases, a transition from insulating to metal-like transport behavior is observed, which persists even when the resistivity of the system greatly exceeds the quantum of resistivity h/e(2). The results have been achieved by measuring transport on a mesoscopic length scale while systematically varying the strength of disorder. %Z © 2008 The American Physical Society