  Electronic transport properties of the disordered quantum wires are
considered. The disorder is introduced via impurities (point scatterers),
distributed uniformly over the two-dimensional strip, which represents a model
quantum wire. Incident electrons with a given energy are scattered on
impurities and boundaries of the wire. The electron-electron interaction is
neglected in the model. In particular, the intermediate regime and the
localization regime of transport are studied in more detail in terms of the
conductance and statistical properties of S-matrix ensemble for a given
incident electron energy. The Wigner-Smith time delay distribution obtained for
the localization regime is compared with the prediction for the scattering by a
one-dimensional random potential.
