The Landauer Formula: a Magic Mantra Revisited
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We review the conceptual structure of the Landauer theory of electron transport in the light of quantum kinetics, the orthodox framework for describing conductance at all scales. In a straightforward analysis, we assess popular claims for a rational link between Landauer theory on the one hand, and orthodox microscopics on the other. The need to explicitly include inelastic (dissipative) carrier relaxation is key to any well-posed microscopic model of open-system mesoscopic transport.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0304573,
title = {The Landauer Formula: a Magic Mantra Revisited},
author = {Mukunda P. Das and Frederick Green},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0304573},
year = {2007}
}
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