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We solve the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation which describes the evolution of an ensamble of disordered wires of increasing length in the three cases $\beta=1,2,4$. The solution is obtained by mapping the problem in that of a suitable…
We compute the quantum correction due to weak localization for transport properties of disordered quasi-one-dimensional conductors, by integrating the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation for the distribution of the transmission…
An exact solution is presented of the Fokker-Planck equation which governs the evolution of an ensemble of disordered metal wires of increasing length, in a magnetic field. By a mapping onto a free-fermion problem, the complete probability…
The two known non-perturbative theories of localization in disordered wires, the Fokker-Planck approach due to Dorokhov, Mello, Pereyra, and Kumar, and the field-theoretic approach due to Efetov and Larkin, are shown to be equivalent for…
We study the conductance of disordered wires with unitary symmetry focusing on the case in which $m$ perfectly conducting channels are present due to the channel-number imbalance between two-propagating directions. Using the exact solution…
We present a field-theoretic framework to characterize the distribution of transmission eigenvalues for coherent wave propagation through disordered media. The central outcome is a transport equation for a matrix-valued radiance, analogous…
Electronic transport properties in a disordered quantum wire are very well described by the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar (DMPK) equation, which describes the evolution of the transmission eigenvalues as a function of the length of a…
We study conductance fluctuations in disordered quantum wires with unitary symmetry focusing on the case in which the number of conducting channels in one propagating direction is not equal to that in the opposite direction. We consider…
The Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar (DMPK) equation, which describes the distribution of transmission eigenvalues of multichannel disordered conductors, has been enormously successful in describing a variety of detailed transport properties of…
We discuss the connection between the random matrix approach to disordered wires and the Calogero-Sutherland models. We show that different choices of random matrix ensembles correspond to different classes of CS models. In particular, the…
We develop a field-theoretic framework, called radiant field theory, to calculate the distribution of transmission eigenvalues for coherent wave propagation in disordered media. At its core is a self-consistent transport equation for a…
We develop a systematic perturbative method to obtain analytic solution of the Generalized Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar (DMPK) equation in the strongly disordered regime which describes the evolution of the joint probability distribution of…
We study the conductance of phase-coherent disordered quantum wires focusing on the case in which the number of conducting channels is imbalanced between two propagating directions. If the number of channels in one direction is by one…
The conductance of disordered wires with symplectic symmetry is studied by a random-matrix approach. It has been believed that Anderson localization inevitably arises in ordinary disordered wires. A counterexample is recently found in the…
The supersymmetry technique [A. V. Kolesnikov and K. B. Efetov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3689 (1999)] predicts a two-scale behavior of wavefunction decay in disordered wires in the crossover regime from preserved to broken time-reversal…
The Generalized Dorokov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar (DMPK) equation has recently been used to obtain a family of very broad and highly asymmetric conductance distributions for three dimensional disordered conductors. However, there are two major…
We study the electronic transport properties of the Anderson model on a strip, modeling a quasi one-dimensional disordered quantum wire. In the literature, the standard description of such wires is via random matrix theory (RMT). Our…
We show that the distribution of the conductance in quasi-one-dimensional systems with surface disorder is correctly described by the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation if one includes direct processes in the scattering matrix S through…
Quantum transport through devices coupled to electron reservoirs can be described in terms of the full counting statistics (FCS) of charge transfer. Transport observables, such as conductance and shot-noise power are just cumulants of FCS…
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…