Wave function correlations and the AC conductivity of disordered wires beyond the Mott-Berezinskii law

G.M. Falco, Andrei A. Fedorenko, Ilya A. Gruzberg

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Abstract

In one-dimensional disordered wires electronic states are localized at any energy. Correlations of the states at close positive energies and the AC conductivity \sigma(\omega) in the limit of small frequency are described by the Mott-Berezinskii theory. We revisit the instanton approach to the statistics of wave functions and AC transport valid in the tails of the spectrum (large negative energies). Applying our recent results on functional determinants, we calculate exactly the integral over Gaussian fluctuations around the exact two-instanton saddle point. We derive correlators of wave functions at different energies beyond the leading order in the energy difference. This allows us to calculate corrections to the Mott-Berezinskii law (the leading small-frequency asymptotic behavior of \sigma(\omega)) which approximate the exact result in a broad range of \omega. We compare our results with the ones obtained for positive energies.
Original languageEnglish
Article number37004
Number of pages7
JournalEPL (Europhysics Letters)
Volume120
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jan 2018

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