Platinum atomic contacts: from tunneling to contact
arXiv:1703.09999 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.125438
Abstract
We present a theoretical study of the electronic transport through Pt nanocontacts. We show that the analysis of the tunnelling regime requires a very careful treatment of the technical details. For instance, an insufficient size of the system can cause unphysical charge oscillations to arise along the transport direction; moreover, the use of an inappropriate basis set can deviate the distance dependence of the conductance from the expected exponential trend. While the conductance decay can be either corrected by employing ghost atoms or a large-cutoff-radius basis set, the same does not apply to the corrugation, for which only the second option is recommended. Interestingly, these details were not found to have a remarkable impact in the contact regime. These findings are important for theoretical studies of distance-dependent phenomena in scanning-probe and break-junction experiments.
arXiv comment7 pages, 8 figures
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