TY - JOUR PB - AMER PHYSICAL SOC UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.016805 SN - 0031-9007 N2 - 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. ID - discovery1314472 A1 - Baenninger, M A1 - Ghosh, A A1 - Pepper, M A1 - Beere, HE A1 - Farrer, I A1 - Ritchie, DA KW - METAL-INSULATOR-TRANSITION KW - QUANTUM HALL LIQUID KW - ANDERSON TRANSITION KW - GROUND-STATE KW - CONDUCTIVITY KW - DENSITY KW - GAS KW - SYSTEMS KW - LATTICE KW - FIELD JF - PHYS REV LETT VL - 100 AV - public Y1 - 2008/01/11/ TI - Low-temperature collapse of electron localization in two dimensions IS - 1 N1 - © 2008 The American Physical Society ER -