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Conductance fluctuations in the localized regime

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We have studied numerically the fluctuations of the conductance, gg, in two-dimensional, three-dimensional and four-dimensional disordered non-interacting systems. We have checked that the variance of lng\ln g varies with the lateral sample size as L2/5L^{2/5} in three-dimensional systems, and as a logarithm in four-dimensional systems. The precise knowledge of the dependence of this variance with system size allows us to test the single-parameter scaling hypothesis in three-dimensional systems. We have also calculated the third cumulant of the distribution of lng\ln g in two- and three-dimensional systems, and have found that in both cases it diverges with the exponent of the variance times 3/2, remaining relevant in the large size limit.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0603796,
  title  = {Conductance fluctuations in the localized regime},
  author = {A. M. Somoza and J. Prior and M. Ortuno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0603796},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 figures. accepted in PRB

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