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Josephson junction detector of non-Gaussian noise
Hermann Grabert
The measurement of higher order cumulants of the current noise generated by a nonlinear mesoscopic conductor using a Josephson junction as on-chip detector is investigated theoreti…
Electronic and atomic shell structure in aluminum nanowires
A. I. Mares, D. F. Urban, J. Bürki +3
We report experiments on aluminum nanowires in ultra-high vacuum at room temperature that reveal a periodic spectrum of exceptionally stable structures. Two "magic" series of stabl…
Scaling Theory of the Peierls-CDW in Metal Nanowires
D. F. Urban, C. A. Stafford, Hermann Grabert
The Peierls instability in multi-channel metal nanowires is investigated. Hyperscaling relations are established for the finite-size-, temperature-, and wavevector-scaling of the e…
Stability and Symmetry Breaking in Metal Nanowires
D. F. Urban, J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford +1
A general linear stability analysis of simple metal nanowires is presented using a continuum approach which correctly accounts for material-specific surface properties and electron…
How to detect the fourth order cumulant of electrical noise
Joachim Ankerhold, Hermann Grabert
It is proposed to measure the current noise generated in a mesoscopic conductor by macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in a current biased Josephson junction placed in parallel to…
Electronic shell effects and the stability of alkali nanowires
D. F. Urban, J. Bürki, A. I. Yanson +4
Experimental conductance histograms for Na nanowires are analyzed in detail and compared to recent theoretical results on the stability of cylindrical and elliptical nanowires, usi…