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Classical Correlations and Quantum Interference in Ballistic Conductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2010-02-24 v1

Abstract

We illustrate how classical chaotic dynamics influences the quantum properties at mesoscopic scales. As a model case we study semiclassically coherent transport through ballistic mesoscopic systems within the Landauer formalism beyond the so-called diagonal approximation, i.e. by incorporating classical action correlations. In this context we review and explain the two main trajectory-based methods developed for calculating quantum corrections: the configuration space approach and the phase space approach that can be regarded as less illustrative but more general than the first one.

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@article{arxiv.0906.3488,
  title  = {Classical Correlations and Quantum Interference in Ballistic Conductors},
  author = {Daniel Waltner and Klaus Richter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3488},
  year   = {2010}
}
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