Conductance through atomic point contacts between fcc(100) electrodes of gold

Details Conductance through atomic point contacts between fcc(100) electrodes of gold Conductance through atomic point contacts between fcc(100) electrodes of gold

2008-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/0806.1136v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2008-00458-4

Electrical conductance through various nanocontacts between gold electrodes is studied by using the density functional theory, scalar-relativistic pseudopotentials, generalized gradient approximation for the exchange-correlation energy and the recursion-transfer-matrix method along with channel decomposition. The nanocontact is modeled with pyramidal fcc(100) tips and 1 to 5 gold atoms between the tips. Upon elongation of the contact by adding gold atoms between the tips, the conductance at Fermi energy E_F evolves from G ~ 3 G_0 to G ~ 1 G_0 (G_0 = 2e/h^2). Formation of a true one-atom point contact, with G ~ 1 G_0 and only one open channel, requires at least one atom with coordination number 2 in the wire. Tips that share a common vertex atom or tips with touching vertex atoms have three partially open conductance channels at E_F, and the symmetries of the channels are governed by the wave functions of the tips. The long 5-atom contact develops conductance oscillations and conductance gaps in the studied energy range -3 < E-E_F < 5 eV, which reflects oscillations in the local density of electron states in the 5-atom linear "gold molecule" between the electrodes, and a weak coupling of this "molecule" to the tips.

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