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Cohesion, Conductance, and Charging Effects in a Metallic Nanocontact
C. A. Stafford, F. Kassubek, J. Bürki +2
The conducting and thermodynamic properties of ballistic metallic nanocontacts with smooth shapes are investigated. All properties are related to the electronic scattering matrix,…
Surface Fluctuations and the Stability of Metal Nanowires
C. H. Zhang, F. Kassubek, C. A. Stafford
The surface dynamics and thermodynamics of metal nanowires are investigated in a continuum model. Competition between surface tension and electron-shell effects leads to a rich sta…
Cohesion and Stability of Metal Nanowires: A Quantum Chaos Approach
C. A. Stafford, F. Kassubek, H. Grabert
A remarkably quantitative understanding of the electrical and mechanical properties of metal wires with a thickness on the scale of a nanometer has been obtained within the free-el…
Universality in metallic nanocohesion: a quantum chaos approach
C. A. Stafford, F. Kassubek, J. Bürki +1
Convergent semiclassical trace formulae for the density of states and cohesive force of a narrow constriction in an electron gas, whose classical motion is either chaotic or integr…