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We study the distribution of transmission eigenvalues of a quantum point contact with nearby impurities. In the semi-classical case (the chemical potential lies at the conductance plateau) we find that the transmission properties of this…

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We show that the enhancement of backscattering responsible for the weak localization is accompanied by reduction of the scattering in other directions. A simple quasiclassical interpretation of this phenomenon is presented in terms of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

This is a study of phase-coherent conduction through a ballistic point contact with disordered leads. The disorder imposes mesoscopic (sample-to-sample) fluctuations and weak-localization corrections on the conductance, and also leads to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , J. A. Melsen

A perturbative formula for the lowest Lyapunov exponent of an Anderson model on a strip is presented. It is expressed in terms of an energy dependent doubly stochastic matrix, the size of which is proportional to the strip width. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudolf A. Roemer , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

We study a tight binding model including both on site disorder and coupling of the electrons to randomly oriented magnetic moments. The transport properties are calculated via the Kubo-Greenwood scheme, using the exact eigenstates of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Sanjeev Kumar , Pinaki Majumdar

We consider the disorder-induced correction to the minimal conductance of an anisotropic two-dimensional Dirac node or a three-dimensional Weyl node. An analytical expression is derived for the correction $\delta G$ to the conductance of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Zheng Shi , Björn Sbierski , Piet W. Brouwer

We study the effects of random positional disorder in the transmission of waves in a 1D Kronig-Penny model. For weak disorder we derive an analytical expression for the localization length and relate it to the transmission coefficient for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-07 G. A. Luna-Acosta , F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov , U. Kuhl , H. -J. Stoeckmann

The authors apply the generalized master equation to analyze time-dependent transport through a finite quantum wire with an embedded subsystem. The parabolic quantum wire and the leads with several subbands are described by a continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vidar Gudmundsson , Cosmin Gainar , Chi-Shung Tang , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

The equation for the wave-function localization length in terms of the two-point correlation function of a weak random potential in 1D (F. M. Izrailev and A. A. Krokhin, Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 82, 4062 (1999)) is rederived using the standard…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor F. Herbut

We report a systematic and detailed numerical study of statistics of the reflection coefficient $(|R(L)|^2)$ and its associated phase ($\theta$) for a plane wave reflected from a one-dimensional (1D) disordered medium beyond the random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Prabhakar Pradhan

The standard treatment of quantum corrections to semiclassical electronic conduction assumes that charge carriers propagate many wavelengths between scattering events, and succeeds in explaining multiple phenomena (weak localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Will J. Hardy , Heng Ji , Hanjong Paik , Darrell G. Schlom , Douglas Natelson

Quantum corrections to the conductivity allow experimental assessment of electronic coherence in metals. We consider whether independent measurements of different corrections are quantitatively consistent, particularly in systems with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Trionfi , S. Lee , D. Natelson

We have obtained the universal conductance distribution of two-dimensional disordered systems in the strongly localized limit. This distribution is directly related to the Tracy-Widom distribution, which has recently appeared in many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-24 J. Prior , A. M. Somoza , M. Ortuno

The probability distribution of the mesoscopic local density of states (LDOS) for a single-channel disordered quantum wire with chiral symmetry is computed in two different geometries. An approximate ansatz is proposed to describe the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Ryu , C. Mudry , A. Furusaki

We study the localization properties of two-dimensional electrons in a weak perpendicular magnetic field. For this purpose we construct weakly chiral network models on the square and triangular lattices, by separating in space the regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 V. V. Mkhitaryan , V. Kagalovsky , M. E. Raikh

By the use of the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian approach to scattering we study the distribution of the scattering matrix (S-matrix) poles in one-dimensional (1D) models with various types of diagonal disorder. We consider the case of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-16 I. F. Herrera-González , J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez , F. M. Izrailev

We derive a formula for the quantum corrections to the electrical current for a metal out of equilibrium. In the limit of linear current-voltage characteristics our formula reproduces the well known Altshuler-Aronov correction to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Schwab , R. Raimondi

The 2-- to 1--dimensional crossover of the localisation length of electrons confined to a disordered quantum wire of finite width $L_y$ is studied in a model of electrons moving in the potential of uncorrelated impurities. An analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Kettemann

We study the ensemble-averaged conductance as a function of applied magnetic field for ballistic electron transport across few-channel microstructures constructed in the shape of classically chaotic billiards. We analyse the results of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Pluhar , H. A. Weidenmueller , J. A. Zuk , C. H. Lewenkopf

The paper considers the effect of the defects on the electronic transmission properties in binomially tailored waveguide quantum wires, in which each Dirac delta function potential strength have been weight on the binomial distribution law.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 H. S. Ashour , A. I. Assad , M. Shabat