Supershell Structure in Alkali Metal Nanowires
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Supershell structure in alkali metal nanowires.
Nanowires are formed by indenting and subsequently retracting two pieces of sodium metal. Their cross section gradually reduces upon retraction and the diameters can be obtained from the conductance. In previous work we have demonstrated that when one constructs a histogram of diameters from large numbers of indentation-retraction cycles such histograms show a periodic pattern of stable nanowir...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.5832