{
  "id": "cond-mat/0106244",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-06-13T15:21:44.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-06-13T15:21:44.000Z",
  "title": "Statistics of quantum transport in metal nanowires with surface disorder",
  "authors": [
    "J. Burki",
    "C. A. Stafford"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 1 figure, to be published in the proceedings of the XXXVI Rencontres de Moriond",
  "journal": "\"Electronic Correlations: from meso- to nano-physics\", ed. by T.Martin, G. Montambaux, and J. Tran Thanh Van (EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France, 2001), pp. 27-30",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "Experimental conductance histograms built from several thousand successive breakings of sodium nanowires exhibit peaks up to rather high conductance values (100 x 2e^2/h). In this paper, we present results from a disordered free-electron model of a metallic nanowire, which was previously successful in describing both conductance histograms and shot noise measurements in gold nanocontacts with much lower conductances. We find in particular that, with a modification of the model of disorder, the conductance histogram can be understood as an interplay of conductance quantization and disorder for low conductances (G < 10 x 2e^2/h), while peaks corresponding to higher conductance are actually a combination of several ``quantized conductance peaks''. We also predict a saturation of the shot noise at high conductance to about 1/10 of its classical value 2eI.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-06-13T15:21:44.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "metal nanowires",
      "surface disorder",
      "quantum transport",
      "experimental conductance histograms built",
      "statistics"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2001cond.mat..6244B"
    }
  }
}