Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
1997-10-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
5 pages Revtex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.57.R15092
The conductance of a waveguide containing finite number of periodically placed identical point-like impurities is investigated. It has been calculated as a function of both the impurity strength and the number of impurities using the Landauer-B\"uttiker formula. In the case of few impurities the conductance is proportional to the number of the open channels $N$ of the empty waveguide and shows a regular staircase like behavior with step heights $\approx 2e^2/h$. For large number of impurities the influence of the band structure of the infinite periodic chain can be observed and the conductance is approximately the number of energy bands (smaller than $N$) times the universal constant $2e^2/h$. This lower value is reached exponentially with increasing number of impurities. As the strength of the impurity is increased the system passes from integrable to quantum-chaotic. The conductance, in units of $2e^2/h$, changes from $N$ corresponding to the empty waveguide to $\sim N/2 $ corresponding to chaotic or disordered system. It turnes out, that the conductance can be expressed as $(1-c/2)N$ where the parameter $0
Cserti József
Szálka G.
Vattay Gábor
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