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Integrable theory of quantum transport in chaotic cavities

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-01-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Chaotic Dynamics Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

The problem of quantum transport in chaotic cavities with broken time-reversal symmetry is shown to be completely integrable in the universal limit. This observation is utilised to determine the cumulants and the distribution function of conductance for a cavity with ideal leads supporting an arbitrary number nn of propagating modes. Expressed in terms of solutions to the fifth Painlev\'e transcendent and/or the Toda lattice equation, the conductance distribution is further analysed in the large-nn limit that reveals long exponential tails in the otherwise Gaussian curve.

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@article{arxiv.0806.2784,
  title  = {Integrable theory of quantum transport in chaotic cavities},
  author = {Vladimir Al. Osipov and Eugene Kanzieper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2784},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages; final version to appear in Physical Review Letters

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