Abstract
We study coherent electron transport in a one-dimensional wire with disorder modeled as a chain of randomly positioned scatterers. We derive analytical expressions for all statistical moments of the wire resistance By means of these expressions we show analytically that the distribution of the variable is not exactly Gaussian even in the limit of weak disorder. In a strict mathematical sense, this conclusion is found to hold not only for the distribution tails but also for the bulk of the distribution
- Received 24 July 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.67.165316
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