# The Landauer Formula: a Magic Mantra Revisited

Source: [The Landauer Formula: a Magic Mantra Revisited](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa1e447a2b558e2932149b>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-23T14:39:44.514Z

Authors: Mukunda P. Das, Frederick Green

Published: 2003-04-25T10:35:17.000Z

## Abstract

We review the conceptual structure of the Landauer theory of electron transport in the light of quantum kinetics, the orthodox framework for describing conductance at all scales. In a straightforward analysis, we assess popular claims for a rational link between Landauer theory on the one hand, and orthodox microscopics on the other. The need to explicitly include inelastic (dissipative) carrier relaxation is key to any well-posed microscopic model of open-system mesoscopic transport.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304573>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0304573.pdf>)