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The fundamental units of generalized quantum conductance and quantum diffusion

Lino Reggiani

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Although quantum transport at the nanoscale has received widespread attention since Landauer's pioneering work in 1957, we remark, that a general theory that sheds light on the difference between classical and quantum relativistic physical models is still lacking. By considering a classical 3D gas of non-interacting quasi.particles, the article presents a unified theory that provides a generalized conductance of dimensionless quasi-particles, neutral massive, electric, thermal, and photon curren...

Submitted: April 24, 2026Subjects: Physics; Physics

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Although quantum transport at the nanoscale has received widespread attention since Landauer's pioneering work in 1957, we remark, that a general theory that sheds light on the difference between classical and quantum relativistic physical models is still lacking. By considering a classical 3D gas of non-interacting quasi.particles, the article presents a unified theory that provides a generalized conductance of dimensionless quasi-particles, neutral massive, electric, thermal, and photon currents. The investigation begins with an analogy between the original Drude model of 1900 and a modified Drude model of quasi-particles, which includes a ballistic transport regime and is independent of statistics (excluding Bose-Einstein condensation). Next, we construct connections between the quasi-particle unit in the modified Drude model and the carrier unit in dimensionless, electric, massive neutral, phonon, and photon currents. By establishing a connection between Planck's constant hh and a classicaò action that takes into account the correct statistics, hsh_s, we derive the fundamental quantum unit of conductance for any of the mentioned currents. We further extend the diffusion coefficient of quasi-particles from the classical regime to the quantum and relativistic regimes.


Source: arXiv:2604.19828v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19828v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.19828v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19828v1

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Apr 24, 2026
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