Abstract
We develop a simple systematic method, valid for all strengths of disorder, to obtain analytically the full distribution of the conductance for a quasi-one-dimensional wire in the absence of electron-electron interactions. We show that in the crossover region between the metallic and insulating regimes is highly asymmetric, given by an essentially “one-sided” log-normal distribution. For larger disorder, the tail of the log-normal distribution for is cut off by a Gaussian.
- Received 6 April 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3013
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