{
  "id": "cond-mat/0505695",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2005-05-30T15:53:59.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-12-20T17:57:23.000Z",
  "title": "Failure of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in Mesoscopic Conductors",
  "authors": [
    "Maxim G. Vavilov",
    "A. Douglas Stone"
  ],
  "comment": "published version, 6 pages, 4 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 72, 205107 (2005)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.72.205107",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the effect of mesoscopic fluctuations on the validity of the Wiedemann--Franz (WF) law for quasi-one-dimensional metal wires and open quantum dots. At temperatures much less than the generalized Thouless energy, E_c, the WF law is satisfied for each specific sample but as the temperature is raised through E_c a sample-specific correction to the WF law of order 1/g appears (g is the dimensionless conductance) and then tends to zero again at high temperatures. The mesoscopic violation of the Weidemann-Franz law is even more pronounced in a ring geometry, for which Lorenz number exhibits h/e flux-periodic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2005-12-20T17:57:23.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "mesoscopic conductors",
      "wiedemann-franz law",
      "wf law",
      "h/e flux-periodic aharonov-bohm oscillations",
      "quasi-one-dimensional metal wires"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}