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Ballistic electron motion in a random magnetic field

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Using a new scheme of the derivation of the non-linear σ\sigma-model we consider the electron motion in a random magnetic field (RMF) in two dimensions. The derivation is based on writing quasiclassical equations and representing their solutions in terms of a functional integral over supermatrices QQ with the constraint Q2=1Q^2=1. Contrary to the standard scheme, neither singling out slow modes nor saddle-point approximation are used. The σ\sigma-model obtained is applicable at the length scale down to the electron wavelength. We show that this model differs from the model with a random potential (RP).However, after averaging over fluctuations in the Lyapunov region the standard σ\sigma-model is obtained leading to the conventional localization behavior.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307424,
  title  = {Ballistic electron motion in a random magnetic field},
  author = {K. B. Efetov and V. R. Kogan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307424},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figures, to be submitted in PRB v2: Section IV is removed

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