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Spectral Correlations, Symmetry Breaking and Novel Orbital Magnetic Effects in Mesoscopics

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Transport Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems

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The quasiclassical picture yielding the correlations in the spectrum of an electron diffusing in a mesoscopic “quantum dot” is reviewed. This includes the range where random-matrix theory holds as well as the new universality class found by Altshuler and Shklovskii. Some generalizations are mentioned and the orthogonal-unitary symmetry crossover brought about by a magnetic field is treated. Using a recent thermodynamic relationship between the difference of derivatives of canonical and grand-canonical quantities and grand-canonical fluctuations, a new paramagnetic orbital contribution to the electronic susceptibility is obtained and discussed.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

    Hidetoshi Fukuyama

  2. Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan

    Tsuneya Ando

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Imry, Y. (1992). Spectral Correlations, Symmetry Breaking and Novel Orbital Magnetic Effects in Mesoscopics. In: Fukuyama, H., Ando, T. (eds) Transport Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84818-6_20

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