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Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4126 - 4129 (1993)

Brownian-motion model for parametric correlations in the spectra of disordered metals

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C. W. J. Beenakker
Instituut-Lorentz, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Received 11 March 1993

We study the response to an external perturbation of the energy levels of a disordered metallic particle, by means of the Brownian-motion model introduced by Dyson in the theory of random matrices, and reproduce the results of a recent microscopic [A. Szafer and B. L. Altshuler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 587 (1993)]. This establishes the validity of Dyson’s basic assumption, that parametric correlations in the energy spectrum are dominated by ‘‘level repulsion,’’ and therefore soley dependent on the symmetry of the Hamiltonian.


©1993 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.4126
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.4126
PACS: 73.20.Dx, 05.40.+j, 05.45.+b, 71.25.-s

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