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Delocalization and conductance quantization in one-dimensional systems

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-07 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate the delocalization and conductance quantization in finite one-dimensional chains with only off-diagonal disorder coupled to leads. It is shown that the appearence of delocalized states at the middle of the band under correlated disorder is strongly dependent upon the even-odd parity of the number of sites in the system. In samples with inversion symmetry the conductance equals 2e2/h2e^{2}/h for odd samples, and is smaller for even parity. This result suggests that this even-odd behaviour found previously in the presence of electron correlations may be unrelated to charging effects in the sample.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0112260,
  title  = {Delocalization and conductance quantization in one-dimensional systems},
  author = {Z. Y. Zeng and F. Claro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0112260},
  year   = {2009}
}

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