# Reply to "Comment on 'Suppression of conductance fluctuations in short one-dimensional disordered conductors’ "

Pradhan, Prabhakar and Kumar, N (1998) Reply to "Comment on 'Suppression of conductance fluctuations in short one-dimensional disordered conductors’ ". In: Physical Review B, 57 (7). p. 4180.

## Abstract

In his $comment^1$ Heinrichs has questioned the validity of the starting assumption made in our $paper^2$, namely, that in the limit of short sample length (L), the phase $\theta(L)$ of the complex amplitude reflection coefficient r(L) gets strongly correlated with the random potential V(L) such that V(L)sin $\theta(L)\geq0$ with a probability of 1. Our stated finiteness of the averaged conductance in the short-length limit, of course, depended crucially on this assumption.

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