  Consider a multichannel closed ring with disorder. In the semiclassical
treatment its conductance is given by the Drude formula. Quantum mechanics
challenge this result both in the limit of strong disorder (eigenstates are not
quantum-ergodic in real space) and in the limit of weak disorder (eigenstates
are not quantum-ergodic in momentum space). Consequently the analysis of
conductance requires going beyond linear response theory, leading to a resistor
network picture of transitions between energy levels. We demonstrate that our
semi-linear response theory provides a firm unified framework from which the
"hopping" phenomenology of Mott can be derived.
