Density of states and magnetoconductance of disordered Au point contacts

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2003-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307576v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to PRB as Brief Report

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.113407

We report the first low temperature magnetotransport measurements on electrochemically fabricated atomic scale gold nanojunctions. As $T \to 0$, the junctions exhibit nonperturbatively large zero bias anomalies (ZBAs) in their differential conductance. We consider several explanations and find that the ZBAs are consistent with a reduced local density of states (LDOS) in the disordered metal. We suggest that this is a result of Coulomb interactions in a granular metal with moderate intergrain coupling. Magnetoconductance of atomic scale junctions also differs significantly from that of less geometrically constrained devices, and supports this explanation.

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