Semiclassical Theory of Chaotic Quantum Transport
- 24 October 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 89 (20) , 206801
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.206801
Abstract
We present a refined semiclassical approach to the Landauer conductance and Kubo conductivity of clean chaotic mesoscopic systems. We demonstrate for systems with uniformly hyperbolic dynamics that including off-diagonal contributions to double sums over classical paths gives a weak-localization correction in quantitative agreement with results from random matrix theory. We further discuss the magnetic-field dependence. This semiclassical treatment accounts for current conservation.Keywords
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