Quantum Transport and Surface Scattering
- 24 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (21) , 2760-2763
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.2760
Abstract
The effects of surface scattering on quantum transport in thin films and wires are considered. A nontrivial channel-mixing problem arising from random boundary conditions is solved exactly by a new method that we present here. We find that the full quantum-mechanical treatment of very pure systems leads to results qualitatively different from those of currently used quasiclassical theory. Our theory explains some recent experimental observations.Keywords
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