title: Universality of liquid-gas Mott transitions at finite temperatures.
abstract: We explain, in a consistent manner, the set of seemingly conflicting experiments on the finite temperature Mott critical point, and demonstrate that the Mott transition is in the Ising universality class. We show that, even though the thermodynamic behavior of the system near such critical point is described by an Ising order parameter, the global conductivity can depend on other singular observables and, in particular, on the energy density. Finally, we show that in the presence of weak disorder the dimensionality of the system has crucial effects on the size of the critical region that is probed experimentally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA.
authors.forename: Stefanos
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Papanikolaou
authors.forename: Rafael M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fradkin
authors.forename: Philip W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Joerg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schmalian
authors.forename: Rastko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sknepnek