%0 Journal Article
%T Disorder to chaos transition in the conductance distribution of corrugated waveguides
%A A. Alcazar-Lopez
%A J. A. Mendez-Bermudez
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.032904
%X We perform a detailed numerical study of the distribution of conductances $P(T)$ for quasi-one-dimensional corrugated waveguides as a function of the corrugation complexity (from rough to smooth). We verify the universality of $P(T)$ in both, the diffusive ($\bra T \ket> 1$) and the localized ($\bra T \ket\ll 1$) transport regimes. However, at the crossover regime ($\bra T \ket \sim 1$), we observe that $P(T)$ evolves from the surface-disorder to the bulk-disorder theoretical predictions for decreasing complexity in the waveguide boundaries. We explain this behavior as a transition from disorder to deterministic chaos; since, in the limit of smooth boundaries the corrugated waveguides are, effectively, linear chains of chaotic cavities.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6931v1