Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-09-16
Phys. Rev. B 77, 064201 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
14 pages, 1 figure, revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.064201
The Landauer scattering approach to 4-probe resistance is revisited for the case of a d-dimensional disordered resistor in the presence of decoherence. Our treatment is based on an invariant-embedding equation for the evolution of the coherent reflection amplitude coefficient in the length of a 1-dimensional disordered conductor, where decoherence is introduced at par with the disorder through an outcoupling, or stochastic absorption, of the wave amplitude into side (transverse) channels, and its subsequent incoherent re-injection into the conductor. This is essentially in the spirit of B{\"u}ttiker's reservoir-induced decoherence. The resulting evolution equation for the probability density of the 4-probe resistance in the presence of decoherence is then generalised from the 1-dimensional to the d-dimensional case following an anisotropic Migdal-Kadanoff-type procedure and analysed. The anisotropy, namely that the disorder evolves in one arbitrarily chosen direction only, is the main approximation here that makes the analytical treatment possible. A qualitatively new result is that arbitrarily small decoherence reduces the localisation-delocalisation transition to a crossover making resistance moments of all orders finite.
Kumar Nirman
Roy Dibyendu
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