Fictitious level dynamics: A novel approach to spectral statistics in disordered conductors

DOI10.1063/1.531676MaRDI QIDQ5284726zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. T. Chalker, Igor V. Lerner, Robert A. Smith

Publication date 1 October 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9606044

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationspectral correlationsspectral statisticsweak localization corrections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Other physical applications of random processes (60K40)

Abstract: We establish a new approach to calculating spectral statistics in disordered conductors, by considering how energy levels move in response to changes in the impurity potential. We use this fictitious dynamics to calculate the spectral form factor in two ways. First, describing the dynamics using a Fokker-Planck equation, we make a physically motivated decoupling, obtaining the spectral correlations in terms of the quantum return probability. Second, from an identity which we derive between two- and three-particle correlation functions, we make a mathematically controlled decoupling to obtain the same result. We also calculate weak localization corrections to this result, and show for two dimensional systems (which are of most interest) that corrections vanish to three-loop order.

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