Conduction eigenchannels of atomic-sized contacts: Ab initio KKR Green's function formalism

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Bagrets, Alexei ^a,b   Papanikolaou, Nikos ^c   Mertig, Ingrid ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

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EID: 34347404884     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.235448     Document Type: Article

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