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TY - JOUR
T1 - Applicability of the ergodicity hypothesis to mesoscopic fluctuations.
AU - Tsyplyatyev, O.
AU - Aleiner, I. L.
AU - Falko, Vladimir
AU - Lerner, Igor V.
PY - 2003/9/11
Y1 - 2003/9/11
N2 - We evaluate a typical value of higher-order cumulants (irreducible moments) of conductance fluctuations that could be extracted from magnetoconductance measurements in a single sample when an external magnetic field is swept over an interval B0. We find that the nth cumulant has a sample-dependent random part ±〈〈g2〉〉n/2sqrt[anBc/Bo], where 〈〈g2〉〉 is the variance of conductance fluctuations, Bc is a correlation field, and an∼n! This means that an apparent deviation of the conductance distribution from a Gaussian shape, manifested by nonvanishing higher cumulants, can be a spurious result of correlations of conductances at different values of the magnetic field.
AB - We evaluate a typical value of higher-order cumulants (irreducible moments) of conductance fluctuations that could be extracted from magnetoconductance measurements in a single sample when an external magnetic field is swept over an interval B0. We find that the nth cumulant has a sample-dependent random part ±〈〈g2〉〉n/2sqrt[anBc/Bo], where 〈〈g2〉〉 is the variance of conductance fluctuations, Bc is a correlation field, and an∼n! This means that an apparent deviation of the conductance distribution from a Gaussian shape, manifested by nonvanishing higher cumulants, can be a spurious result of correlations of conductances at different values of the magnetic field.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.121301
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.121301
M3 - Journal article
VL - 68
SP - 121301 / 4 pages
JO - Physical Review B: Condensed Matter
JF - Physical Review B: Condensed Matter
SN - 1550-235X
IS - 12
ER -