Conductance fluctuations as a tool for investigating the quantum modes in atomic size metallic contacts

Details Conductance fluctuations as a tool for investigating the quantum modes in atomic size metallic contacts Conductance fluctuations as a tool for investigating the quantum modes in atomic size metallic contacts

1999-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908139v1

Phys. Rev. B 61, 2273 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

14 pages; submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.61.2273

Recently it has been observed that the conductance fluctuations of atomic size gold contacts are suppressed when the conductance is equal to an integer multiple of the conductance quantum. The fact that these contacts tend to consist exclusively of fully open or closed modes has been argued to be the origin for this suppression. Here, the experiments have been extended to a wide range of metallic elements with different chemical valence and they provide new information about the relation between the mode composition and statistically preferred conductance values observed in conductance histograms.

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