Publications on selected topics




Random matrix theory of quantum transport through quantum dots

Nonequilibrium theory of Coulomb blockade in open quantum dots, P. W. Brouwer, A. Lamacraft, and K. Flensberg, Phys. Rev. B 72, 075316 (2005).

Weak Coulomb blockade effect in quantum dots, P.W. Brouwer, A. Lamacraft, and K. Flensberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 136801 (2005)

Exponential sensitivity to dephasing of electrical conduction through a quantum dot, J. Tworzydlo, A. Tajic, H. Schomerus, P. W. Brouwer, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 186806 (2004).

Weak localization and conductance fluctuations in a quantum dot with parallel magnetic field and spin-orbit scattering, J.N.H.J. Cremers, P.W. Brouwer, and V.I. Fal'ko, Phys. Rev. B 68, 125329 (2003).

Conductance peak height correlations for a Coulomb-blockaded quantum dot in a weak magnetic field, S. Braig, S. Adam, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B  68, 035323 (2003).

Weak localization and conductance fluctuations of a chaotic quantum dot with tunable spin-orbit coupling, P.W. Brouwer, J.N.H.J. Cremers, and B.I. Halperin, Phys. Rev. B 65,  081302 (2002).

Interaction Induced Restoration of Phase Coherence, A.A. Clerk, P.W. Brouwer, V. Ambegaokar, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 186801 (2001).

Quantum Effects in Coulomb Blockade, I.L. Aleiner, P.W. Brouwer, and L.I. Glazman, Phys. Rep. 358, 309 (2002) [cond-mat/0103008].

Fano resonances as a probe of phase coherence in quantum dots, A.A. Clerk, X. Waintal, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4636 (2001).

Distribution of the quantum mechanical time-delay matrix for a chaotic cavity, P.W. Brouwer, K.M. Frahm, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Waves in Random Media 9, 91 (1999) [cond-mat/9809022].

Effects of electron-electron interaction on the conductance of open quantum dots, P.W. Brouwer and I.L. Aleiner, Phys. Rev. Lett.  82, 390 (1999).

Distributions of the conductance and its parametric derivatives in quantum dots, A.G. Huibers, S.R. Patel, C.M. Marcus, P.W. Brouwer, C.I. Duru"oz, J.S. Harris, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1917 (1998).

Distribution of parametric conductance derivatives of a quantum dot, P.W. Brouwer, S.A. van Langen, K.M. Frahm, M. Buttiker, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 913 (1997).

Quantum mechanical time-delay matrix in chaotic scattering, P.W. Brouwer, K.M. Frahm, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4737 (1997).

Voltage-probe and imaginary potential models for dephasing in a chaotic quantum dot, P.W. Brouwer and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B 55, 4695 (1997).

Charge-Relaxation and Dwell Time in the Fluctuating Admittance of a Chaotic Cavity, P.W. Brouwer and M. Buttiker, Europhys. Lett., 37, 441 (1997).

Conductance distribution of a quantum dot with non-ideal single-channel leads, P.W. Brouwer and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B 50, 11263 (1994).

Generalized circular ensemble of scattering matrices for a chaotic cavity with non-ideal leads, P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 51, 16878 (1995).

Effect of a voltage probe on the phase-coherent conductance of a ballistic chaotic cavity, P.W. Brouwer and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B, 51, 7739 (1995).
 

Quantum pumps

Semiclassical Theory of a Quantum Pump, S. Rahav and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 74, 205327 (2006).

Nonequilibrium theory of Coulomb blockade in open quantum dots, P. W. Brouwer, A. Lamacraft, and K. Flensberg, Phys. Rev. B 72, 075316 (2005).

Mesoscopic effects in adiabatic spin pumping, P. Sharma and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 166801 (2003).

Scattering matrix ensemble for time-dependent transport through a chaotic quantum dot, M.L. Polianski and P.W. Brouwer, J. Phys. A 36, 3215 (2003).

Noise through Quantum Pumps, M. L. Polianski, M. G. Vavilov, P. W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 65, 245314 (2002).

Dephasing in a quantum pump, J.N.H.J. Cremers and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 65, 115333 (2002).

Pumped current and voltage for an adiabatic quantum pump, M. L. Polianski and P. W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 64, 075304 (2001).

Rectification of displacement currents in an adiabatic electron pump, P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 63, 121303 (2001).

Scattering approach to parametric pumping, P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 58, R10135 (1998).
 
 
Semiclassical theories of quantum transport

Semiclassical theory of the Ehrenfest-time dependence of quantum transport, P.W. Brouwer, submitted to Phys. Rev. B [arXiv:0706.1487].

Universal parametric correlations in the classical limit of quantum transport, P.W. Brouwer and S. Rahav, Phys. Rev. B 75, 201303 (2007).

Interplay of Ehrenfest and Dephasing times in ballistic conductors, A. Altland, P.W. Brouwer, and C. Tian, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036804 (2007).

Semiclassical Theory of a Quantum Pump, S. Rahav and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 74, 205327 (2006).

Spectral form factor near the Ehrenfest-time, P.W. Brouwer, S. Rahav, and C. Tian, Phys. Rev. E 74, 066208 (2006).

Towards a semiclassical justification of the `effective random matrix theory' for transport through ballistic chaotic quantum dots, P.W. Brouwer and S. Rahav, Phys. Rev. B 74, 085313 (2006).

Ehrenfest time and the coherent backscattering off ballistic cavities, S. Rahav and P. W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196804 (2006).

Semiclassical theory of the Ehrenfest-time dependence of quantum transport in ballistic quantum dots, P. W. Brouwer and S. Rahav, Phys. Rev. B 74, 075322 (2006).

Classical limit of transport in quantum kicked maps, Saar Rahav and Piet W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 73, 035324 (2006).

Ehrenfest-time dependence of weak localization in open quantum dots,
P.W. Brouwer and S. Rahav, Phys. Rev. Lett 95, 056806 (2005).


 

Ground state properties of metal grains and quantum dots

Combined effect of electron-electron interactions and spin-orbit scattering in metal nanoparticles, D.A. Gorokhov and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 69, 155417 (2004).

Scaling approach to electron-electron interactions in a chaotic quantum dot, S. Adam, P.W. Brouwer, and P. Sharma, Phys. Rev. B 68, 241311 (2003).

Fluctuations of g-factors in metal nanoparticles: Effects of electron-electron interaction and spin-orbit scattering, D.A. Gorokhov and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186602 (2003).

Wavefunction statistics in open chaotic billiards, P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. E 68, 046205 (2003).

Enhanced mesoscopic fluctuations in the crossover between random matrix ensembles, S. Adam, P.W. Brouwer, J.P. Sethna, X. Waintal, Phys. Rev. B 66, 165310 (2002).

Spin, spin-orbit, and electron-electron interactions in mesoscopic systems, Y. Oreg, P.W. Brouwer, X. Waintal, B.I. Halperin, in "Nano-Physics and Bio-Electronics: a new Odyssey", edited by T. Chakraborty, F. Peeters, and U. Sivan (Elsevier , 2002) [cond-mat/0109541].

Fluctuating spin g-tensor in small metal grains, P.W. Brouwer, X. Waintal, and B.I. Halperin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 369 (2000).

Mesoscopic fluctuations of the ground state spin of a small metal particle, P.W. Brouwer, Y. Oreg, and B.I. Halperin, Phys. Rev. B 60, 13 977 (1999).

Fluctuating phase rigidity for a quantum chaotic system with partially broken time-reversal symmetry, S.A. van Langen, P.W. Brouwer, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. E 55, 1 (1997).

Effect of the coupling to a superconductor on the level statistics of a metal grain in a magnetic field, K.M. Frahm, P.W. Brouwer, J.A. Melsen, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2981 (1996).

 



Localization in quantum wires or random waveguides

Crossover from weak localization to weak antilocalization in a disordered microbridge, M.G.A. Crawford, P.W. Brouwer, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B 67, 115313 (2003).

Microscopic versus mesoscopic local density of states in one-dimensional localization, H. Schomerus, M. Titov, P.W. Brouwer, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B 65, 121101 (2002).

Photonic excess noise and wave localization, C.W.J. Beenakker, M. Patra, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. A 61, 051801 (2000).

High-frequency dynamics of wave localisation, C.W.J. Beenakker, K.J.H. van Bemmel, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. E 60, 6313 (1999).

Transmission through a many-channel random waveguide with absorption, P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 57, 10526 (1998).

Brightness of a phase-conjugating mirror behind a random medium, J.C.J. Paasschens, P.W. Brouwer, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Europhys. Lett. 38, 651 (1997).

Probability of Reflection by a Random Laser, C.W.J. Beenakker, J.C.J. Paasschens, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1368 (1996).

Quantum transport in disordered wires: Equivalence of the one-dimensional $sigma$-model and the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation, P.W. Brouwer and K. Frahm, Phys. Rev. B 53, 1490 (1996).

Nonperturbative calculation of the probability distribution of plane-wave transmission through a disordered waveguide, S.A. van Langen, P.W. Brouwer, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. E 53, 1344 R (1996).
 
 
 

Localization in quantum wires with anomalous symmetry classes

Disorder-induced critical phenomena--new universality classes in Anderson localization, P.W. Brouwer, A. Furusaki, C. Mudry, S. Ryu, Butsuri 60, 935 (2005), in Japanese [english version at cond-mat/0511622].

On the universality of delocalization in unconventional dirty superconducting wires with broken spin-rotation symmetry, P.W. Brouwer, A. Furusaki, C. Mudry, Phys. Rev. B 67, 014530 (2003).

Zero-modes in the random hopping model, P.W. Brouwer, E. Racine, A. Furusaki, Y. Hatsugai, Y. Morita, C. Mudry, Phys. Rev. B 66, 014204 (2002).

Fokker-Planck equations and density of states in disordered quantum wires, M. Titov, P.W. Brouwer, A. Furusaki, and C. Mudry, Phys. Rev. B 63, 235318 (2001).

Crossover from the chiral to the standard universality classes in the conductance of a quantum wire with random hopping only, C. Mudry, P.W. Brouwer, A. Furusaki, Phys. Rev. B 62, 8249 (2000); Phys. Rev. B 63, 129901 (2001) [E].

Localization and delocalization in dirty superconducting wires, P.W. Brouwer, A. Furusaki, I.A. Gruzberg, and C. Mudry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1064 (2000).

Transport Properties and Density of States of Quantum Wires with Off-diagonal Disorder, P.W. Brouwer, C. Mudry, and A. Furusaki,  Physica E 9, 333 (2001) [cond-mat/0009198].

Density of states in coupled chains with off-diagonal disorder, P.W. Brouwer, C. Mudry, and A. Furusaki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2913 (2000).

Nonuniversality in quantum wires with off-diagonal disorder: a geometric point of view, P.W. Brouwer, C. Mudry, and A. Furusaki, Nucl. Phys. B, 565 [FS], 653 (2000).

Random magnetic flux problem in a quantum wire, C. Mudry, P. W. Brouwer, and A. Furusaki, Phys. Rev. B 59, 13221 (1999).

Density of states in the non-hermitian Lloyd model, C. Mudry, P.W. Brouwer, B.I. Halperin, V. Gurarie, and A. Zee, Phys. Rev. B 58, 13539 (1998).

Delocalization in coupled one-dimensional chains, P.W. Brouwer, C. Mudry, B.D. Simons, and A. Altland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 862 (1998).

Theory of directed localization in one dimension, P.W. Brouwer, P.G. Silvestrov, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B, 56, 4333 (1997).
 

 
Interaction effects in quantum wires

Multiple crossovers in interacting quantum wires, M. Kindermann and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 74, 115121 (2006).

Interference as a probe of spin incoherence in strongly interacting quantum wires, M. Kindermann, P. W. Brouwer, and A. J. Millis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 036809 (2006).

Conductance reduction without shot noise in quantum wires, M. Kindermann and P. W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 74, 125309 (2006).




Normal-metal/ferromagnet multilayers

Ferromagnetic resonance in a current driven nanopillar, J.N. Kupferschmidt, S. Adam, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 74, 134416 (2006).

Current induced transverse spin-wave instability in thin ferromagnets: beyond linear stability analysis, S. Adam, M.L. Polianski, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 73, 024425 (2006).

Current-induced transverse spin wave instability in a thin nanomagnet, M. L. Polianski and P. W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 026602 (2004).

Tunable Magnetic Relaxation In Magnetic Nanoparticles, X. Waintal and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 247201 (2003).

Magnetic exchange interaction induced by a Josephson current, X. Waintal and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 65, 054407 (2002).

Spin torque in a magnetic trilayer coupled to a superconductor, X. Waintal and P.W. Brouwer, to appear in proceedings of les Rencontres de Moriond 2001 on ``Electronic Correlations: From meso- to nano-physics'', edited by T. Martin, G. Montambaux and J. Tran Thanh Van, EDPSciences [cond-mat/0107265].

Current induced switching of magnetic domains to a perpendicular configuration, X. Waintal and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 63, 220407 (2001).

The Role of Spin-Dependent Interface Scattering in Generating Current-Induced Torques in Magnetic Multilayers, X. Waintal, E.B. Myers, P.W. Brouwer, and D.C. Ralph, Phys. Rev. B 62, 12317 (2000) .
 
 
Mesoscopic ferromagnetism

Mesoscopic anisotropic magnetoconductance fluctuations in ferromagnets, S. Adam, M. Kindermann, S. Rahav, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 73, 212408 (2006).

Rate equations for Coulomb blockade with ferromagnetic leads, S. Braig and P. W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 71, 195324 (2005).

Bound on anisotropy in itinerant ferromagnets from random impurities, P.W. Brouwer and D.A. Gorokhov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 017202 (2005).

Tunable Magnetic Relaxation In Magnetic Nanoparticles, X. Waintal and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 247201 (2003).


Mesoscopic superconductivity

Universal gap fluctuations in the superconductor proximity effect, M.G. Vavilov, P.W. Brouwer, V. Ambegaokar, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 874 (2001).

Andreev Conductance of Chaotic and Integrable Quantum Dots, A.A. Clerk, P.W. Brouwer, and V. Ambegaokar, Phys. Rev. B 62, 10226 (2000).

Competition between zero bias anomaly and proximity effect in disordered systems, Y. Oreg, P.W. Brouwer, B.D. Simons, and A. Altland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1269 (1999).

Anomalous temperature dependence of the supercurrent through a chaotic Josephson junction, P.W. Brouwer and C.W.J. Beenakker, Chaos, Solitions & Fractals 8, 1249 (1997).

Superconductor-proximity effect in chaotic and integrable billiards, J.A. Melsen, P.W. Brouwer, K.M. Frahm, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Physica Scripta T69, 233 (1997).

Phase-dependent magnetoconductance fluctuations in a chaotic Josephson Junction, P.W. Brouwer and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B 54, R12705 (1996).

Induced superconductivity distinguishes chaotic from integrable billiards, J.A. Melsen, P.W. Brouwer, K.M. Frahm, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Europhys. Lett. 35, 7 (1996).

Insensitivity to time-reversal symmetry breaking of universal conductance fluctuations with Andreev reflection, P.W. Brouwer and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B 52, 16772 (1995).

Weak localization coexisting with a magnetic field in a normal-metal--superconductor microbridge, P.W. Brouwer and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. B 52, R3868 (1995).

Giant backscattering peak in angle-resolved Andreev reflection, C.W.J. Beenakker, J.A. Melsen, and P.W. Brouwer, Phys. Rev. B 51, 13883 (1995).
 
 


 

Third sound in 4-Helium films

On the propagation of third sound in thin superfluid Helium films, P.W. Brouwer, W.A. Draisma, H. van Beelen, and R. Jochemsen, Physica B 215, 135 (1995).

Third Sound in Restricted Geometries, P.W. Brouwer, W.A. Draisma, P.W.H. Pinkse, H. van Beelen, R. Jochemsen, and G. Frossati, J. Low Temp. Phys. 89, 751 (1992).