title: Distributions of conductance and shot noise and associated phase transitions.
abstract: For a chaotic cavity with two identical leads each supporting N channels, we compute analytically, for large N, the full distribution of the conductance and the shot noise power and show that in both cases there is a central Gaussian region flanked on both sides by non-Gaussian tails. The distribution is weakly singular at the junction of Gaussian and non-Gaussian regimes, a direct consequence of two phase transitions in an associated Coulomb gas problem.
authors.affiliation: Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy.
authors.forename: Pierpaolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vivo
authors.forename: Satya N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Majumdar
authors.forename: Oriol
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bohigas