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Semiclassical Theory of Chaotic Quantum Transport

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We present a refined semiclassical approach to the Landauer conductance and Kubo conductivity of clean chaotic mesoscopic systems. We demonstrate for systems with uniformly hyperbolic dynamics that including off-diagonal contributions to double sums over classical paths gives a weak-localization correction in quantitative agreement with results from random matrix theory. We further discuss the magnetic field dependence. This semiclassical treatment accounts for current conservation.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205158,
  title  = {Semiclassical Theory of Chaotic Quantum Transport},
  author = {Klaus Richter and Martin Sieber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205158},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure