Fluctuational Instabilities of Alkali and Noble Metal Nanowires

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2004-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406374v1

in 'Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics II', Edited by Z. Gingl, SPIE Press, p. 367 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.546590

We introduce a continuum approach to studying the lifetimes of monovalent metal nanowires. By modelling the thermal fluctuations of cylindrical nanowires through the use of stochastic Ginzburg-Landau classical field theories, we construct a self-consistent approach to the fluctuation-induced `necking' of nanowires. Our theory provides quantitative estimates of the lifetimes for alkali metal nanowires in the conductance range 10 < G/G_0 < 100 (where G_0=2e^2/h is the conductance quantum), and allows us to account for qualitative differences in the conductance histograms of alkali vs. noble metal nanowires.

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