Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1995-01-13
Physics
Condensed Matter
14 pages plus 6 figures. Self-unpacking uuencoded postscript. Unpacking instructions are at the beginning of the file.
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/7/10/010
It is demonstrated using three-dimensional computer simulations that some simple non-interacting electron models that include electron scattering by grain boundaries, exhibit coexistence of large persistent currents and small conductances, similar to that observed experimentally in isolated micron-scale gold rings. Models with simple grain boundaries, and models with small numbers of regularly stepped or atomically rough dilute grain boundaries have been studied and found to yield similar results, which differ markedly, however, from the predictions of models that assume only random impurity scattering. This difference is due to the fact that equilibrium persistent currents and non-equilibrium transport coefficients are physically different things and depend in different ways on the topology of the defect structure in a conducting ring. Experiments on metal and semiconductor rings that should be able to determine whether this is the explanation of the effects observed by Chandrasekhar et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 3578 (1991)) are proposed.
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