Signature of a Chemical Bond in the Conductance between Two Metal Surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Hofer, W A ^a   Fisher, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b University College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; GOLD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

COVALENT BONDS; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; MONATOMIC METAL CONTACTS; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL DENSITY FUNCTIONAL METHOD;

CHEMICAL BONDS;

EID: 0041885235     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.036803     Document Type: Article

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