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Revisiting Thouless conductance formula

Condensed Matter 2008-02-03 v3

Abstract

It was shown using perturbation theory[1] that Thouless energy Ec for a quantum system scales linearly with the conductance of the system. We derive in an alternate way in 1-D that Ec scales with the conductance in a very different way. We physically show the difference between our approach and that of ref. 1 to expect our results to hold in higher dimensions also. We verify our results with exact numerical calculations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9506089,
  title  = {Revisiting Thouless conductance formula},
  author = {P. Singha Deo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9506089},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

This version contains an extra result. Two figures available on request