Quantum transport through atomic wires

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 419-421

  Wan, C C ^a   Mozos, José Luis ^a   Taraschi, Gianni ^a   Wang, Jian ^a,b   Guo, Hong ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATOMIC WIRES; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT MINIMIZATION; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SCATTERING PROBABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM SCATTERING; TRANSFER MATRIX EVALUATION;

SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE;

EID: 0031191693     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.119328     Document Type: Article

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