{ "id": "cond-mat/0301070", "version": "v1", "published": "2003-01-07T14:18:22.000Z", "updated": "2003-01-07T14:18:22.000Z", "title": "Magnetic-field-dependent quasiparticle energy relaxation in mesoscopic wires", "authors": [ "A. Anthore", "F. Pierre", "H. Pothier", "D. Esteve" ], "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Physical Review Letters", "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 076806 (2003)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.076806", "categories": [ "cond-mat.mes-hall" ], "abstract": "In order to find out if magnetic impurities can mediate interactions between quasiparticles in metals, we have measured the effect of a magnetic field B on the energy distribution function f(E) of quasiparticles in two silver wires driven out-of-equilibrium by a bias voltage U. In a sample showing sharp distributions at B=0, no magnetic field effect is found, whereas in the other sample, rounded distributions at low magnetic field get sharper as B is increased, with a characteristic field proportional to U. Comparison is made with recent calculations of the effect of magnetic-impurities-mediated interactions taking into account Kondo physics.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2003-01-07T14:18:22.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "magnetic-field-dependent quasiparticle energy relaxation", "mesoscopic wires", "silver wires driven out-of-equilibrium", "magnetic field effect", "sample showing sharp distributions" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }