Ballistic electron motion in a random magnetic field
Abstract
Using a scheme of the derivation of the nonlinear σ model we consider the electron motion in a random magnetic field in two dimensions. The derivation is based on writing quasiclassical equations and representing their solutions in terms of a functional integral over supermatrices Q with the constraint Q2=1. Contrary to the standard scheme, neither singling out slow modes nor saddle-point approximations are used. The σ model obtained is applicable at the length scale down to the electron wavelength. We show that this model differs from the model with a random potential. However, after averaging over fluctuations in the Lyapunov region the standard σ model is obtained leading to the conventional localization behavior.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- December 2003
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0307424
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhRvB..68x5313E
- Keywords:
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- 73.20.Fz;
- 72.15.Rn;
- 73.23.Ad;
- Weak or Anderson localization;
- Localization effects;
- Ballistic transport;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, no figures, to be submitted in PRB v2: Section IV is removed