Brownian motion ensembles and parametric correlations of the transmission eigenvalues: Application to coupled quantum billiards and to disordered wires

Abstract

The parametric correlations of the transmission eigenvalues $T_i$ of a $N$-channel quantum scatterer are calculated assuming two different Brownian motion ensembles. The first one is the original ensemble introduced by Dyson and assumes an isotropic diffusion for the $S$-matrix. The second Brownian motion ensemble assumes for the transfer matrix $M$ an isotropic diffusion yielded by a multiplicative combination law. We review the qualitative differences between transmission through two weakly coupled quantum dots and through a disordered line and we discuss the mathematical analogies between the Fokker-Planck equations of the two Brownian motion models.