Fluctuational instabilities of alkali and noble metal nanowires

Jerome Buerki; Charles A. Stafford; Daniel L. Stein

doi:10.1117/12.546590

25 May 2004 Fluctuational instabilities of alkali and noble metal nanowires

Jerome Buerki, Charles A. Stafford, Daniel L. Stein

Proceedings Volume 5471, Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.546590
Event: Second International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2004, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria Island, Spain

Abstract

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/G₀ < 100 (where G₀ = 2e/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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Jerome Buerki, Charles A. Stafford, and Daniel L. Stein "Fluctuational instabilities of alkali and noble metal nanowires", Proc. SPIE 5471, Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics II, (25 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.546590

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