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The renormalization-decimation method is used to study the transmittivity of atomic wires, with one or more side branches attached at multiple sites. The rescaling process reduces all the branches, attached at an atomic site, to an…
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A closed expression is derived for the probability distribution of the transfer matrix of a particle moving in a one-dimensional system with delta-correlated, weak disorder. The change in the distribution as a function of wire length is…
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