Statistics of quantum transport in metal nanowires with surface disorder
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Experimental conductance histograms built from several thousand successive breakings of sodium nanowires 1,2 exhibit peaks up to rather high conductance values (∼ 100× 2e/h). In this paper, we present results from a disordered free-electron model of a metallic nanowire, which was previously successful in describing both conductance histograms and shot noise measurements in gold nanocontacts with much lower conductances. We find in particular that, with a modification of the model of disorder, the conductance histogram can be understood as an interplay of conductance quantization and disorder for low conductances (G . 10×2e/h), while peaks corresponding to higher conductance are actually a combination of several “quantized conductance peaks”. We also predict a saturation of the shot noise at high conductance to about 1/10 of its classical value 2eĪ .
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