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, , in two-dimensional, three-dimensional and four-dimensional disordered non-interacting systems. We have checked that the variance of varies with the lateral sample size as 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 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.
Cite
@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