Derivation of the probability distribution function for the local density of states of a disordered quantum wire via the replica trick and supersymmetry

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00596-4zbMATH Open0971.81594arXivcond-mat/0006291OpenAlexW2047663235MaRDI QIDQ1587470FDOQ1587470

Authors: J. E. Bunder, R. H. McKenzie 

Publication date: 28 November 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the statistical properties of the local density of states of a one-dimensional Dirac equation in the presence of various types of disorder with Gaussian white-noise distribution. It is shown how either the replica trick or supersymmetry can be used to calculate exactly all the moments of the local density of states. Careful attention is paid to how the results change if the local density of states is averaged over atomic length scales. For both the replica trick and supersymmetry the problem is reduced to finding the ground state of a zero-dimensional Hamiltonian which is written solely in terms of a pair of coupled ``spins which are elements of u(1,1). This ground state is explicitly found for the particular case of the Dirac equation corresponding to an infinite metallic quantum wire with a single conduction channel. The calculated moments of the local density of states agree with those found previously by Al'tshuler and Prigodin [Sov. Phys. JETP 68 (1989) 198] using a technique based on recursion relations for Feynman diagrams.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006291

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zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian white noiseone-dimensional Dirac equationzero-dimensional Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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