Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-03-13
Physics
Condensed Matter
25 pages, revtex, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.53.16555
The scattering approach to quantum transport through a disordered quasi-one-dimensional conductor in the insulating regime is discussed in terms of its transfer matrix $\bbox{T}$. A model of $N$ one-dimensional wires which are coupled by random hopping matrix elements is compared with the transfer matrix model of Mello and Tomsovic. We derive and discuss the complete Fokker-Planck equation which describes the evolution of the probability distribution of $\bbox{TT}^{\dagger}$ with system length in the insulating regime. It is demonstrated that the eigenvalues of $\ln\bbox{TT}^{\dagger}$ have a multivariate Gaussian limiting probability distribution. The parameters of the distribution are expressed in terms of averages over the stationary distribution of the eigenvectors of $\bbox{TT}^{\dagger}$. We compare the general form of the limiting distribution with results of random matrix theory and the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation.
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