Shot noise variation within ensembles of gold atomic break junctions at room temperature

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 26, Issue 47, 2014, Pages

  Chen, R ^a   Matt, M ^b   Pauly, F ^b   Nielaba, P ^b   Cuevas, J C ^c   Natelson, D ^a,d  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

^d Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

break junction; molecular dynamics; nonequilibrium Greens function; shot noise

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; GOLD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; BREAK JUNCTIONS; MECHANICALLY CONTROLLABLE BREAK JUNCTIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREENS FUNCTIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SURFACE CONTAMINATIONS; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM CONDITIONS;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 84908582451     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/47/474204     Document Type: Article

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