The growing need for smaller electronic components has recently sparked the interest in the breakdown of the classical conductivity theory near the atomic scale, at which quantum effects should dominate. In 2012, experimental measurements of electric resistance of nanowires in Si doped with phosphorus atoms demonstrate that quantum effects on charge transport almost disappear for nanowires of lengths larger than a few nanometers, even at very low temperature (4.2 K). We mathematically prove, for non-interacting lattice fermions with disorder, that quantum uncertainty of microscopic electric current density around their (classical) macroscopic values is suppressed, exponentially fast with respect to the volume of the region of the lattice where an external electric field is applied. This is in accordance with the above experimental observation. Disorder is modeled by a random external potential along with random, complex-valued, hopping amplitudes. The celebrated tight-binding Anderson model is one particular example of the general case considered here. Our mathematical analysis is based on Combes-Thomas estimates, the Akcoglu-Krengel ergodic theorem, and the large deviation formalism, in particular the Gärtner-Ellis theorem.

We contribute an extension of large-deviation results obtained in [N.

The Kubo–Martin–Schwinger (KMS) condition is a widely studied fundamental property in quantum statistical mechanics which characterizes the thermal equilibrium states of quantum systems. In the seventies, Gallavotti and Verboven, proposed an analogue to the KMS condition for infinite classical mechanical systems and highlighted its relationship with the Kirkwood–Salzburg equations and with the Gibbs equilibrium measures. In this paper, we prove that in a certain limiting regime of high temperature the classical KMS condition can be derived from the quantum condition in the simple case of the Bose–Hubbard dynamical system on a finite graph. The main ingredients of the proof are Golden–Thompson inequality, Bogoliubov inequality and semiclassical analysis.

The Kubo-Martin-Schwinger condition is a widely studied fundamental property in quantum statistical mechanics which characterises the thermal equilibrium states of quantum systems. In the seventies, G. Gallavotti and E. Verboven, proposed an analogue to the KMS condition for classical mechanical systems and highlighted its relationship with the Kirkwood-Salzburg equations and with the Gibbs equilibrium measures. In the present article, we prove that in a certain limiting regime of high temperature the classical KMS condition can be derived from the quantum condition in the simple case of the Bose-Hubbard dynamical system on a finite graph. The main ingredients of the proof are Golden-Thompson inequality, Bogoliubov inequality and semiclassical analysis.