Non-Gaussian Resistance Fluctuations in Disordered Materials

Details Non-Gaussian Resistance Fluctuations in Disordered Materials Non-Gaussian Resistance Fluctuations in Disordered Materials

2004-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408057v1

Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics, Ed. by Z. Gingl, J. M. Sancho, L. Schimansky-Geier and J. Kertesz, SPIE Proc

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

6 pages, 7 figures, 2th. Int. SPIE Symp. on Fluctuations and Noise, Maspalomas (Spain) 25-28 May, 2004

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.546781

We study the distribution of resistance fluctuations of conducting thin films with different levels of internal disorder. The film is modeled as a resistor network in a steady state determined by the competition between two biased processes, breaking and recovery of the elementary resistors. The fluctuations of the film resistance are calculated by Monte Carlo simulations which are performed under different bias conditions, from the linear regime up to the threshold for electrical breakdown. Depending on the value of the external current, on the level of disorder and on the size of the system, the distribution of the resistance fluctuations can exhibit significant deviations from Gaussianity. As a general trend, a size dependent, non universal distribution is found for systems with low and intermediate disorder. However, for strongly disordered systems, close to the critical point of the conductor-insulator transition, the non-Gaussianity persists when the size is increased and the distribution of resistance fluctuations is well described by the universal Bramwell-Holdsworth-Pinton distribution.

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