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Metal Nanowires: Quantum Transport, Cohesion, and Stability

C. A. Stafford

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0204293

Abstract

Metal nanowires exhibit a number of interesting properties: their electrical conductance is quantized, their shot-noise is suppressed by the Pauli principle, and they are remarkably strong and stable. We show that many of these properties can be understood quantitatively using a nanoscale generalization of the free-electron model. Possible technological applications of nanowires are also discussed.

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