Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
1998-06-08
Phys. Rev. B 57, 4872 (1998)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Latex/Revtex, 11 pages with 5 Postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.57.4872
Energetics and quantized conductance in jellium modeled nanowires are investigated using the local density functional based shell correction method, extending our previous study of uniform in shape wires [C. Yannouleas and U. Landman, J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 5780 (1997)] to wires containing a variable shaped constricted region. The energetics of the wire (sodium) as a function of the length of the volume conserving, adiabatically shaped constriction leads to formation of self selecting magic wire configurations. The variations in the energy result in oscillations in the force required to elongate the wire and are directly correlated with the stepwise variations of the conductance of the nanowire in units of 2e^2/h. The oscillatory patterns in the energetics and forces, and the correlated stepwise variation in the conductance are shown, numerically and through a semiclassical analysis, to be dominated by the quantized spectrum of the transverse states at the narrowmost part of the constriction in the wire.
Bogachek Eduard N.
Landman Uzi
Yannouleas Constantine
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