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The amplitude of non-equilibrium quantum interference in metallic mesoscopic systems
Terrier, C., Babic, D., Strunk, Christoph and Nussbaumer, Thomas (2002) The amplitude of non-equilibrium quantum interference in metallic mesoscopic systems. Europhysics Letters 59 (3), pp. 437-443.Date of publication of this fulltext: 05 Aug 2009 13:58
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.8081
Abstract
We study the influence of a DC bias voltage V on quantum interference corrections to the measured differential conductance in metallic mesoscopic wires and rings. The amplitude of both universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) and Aharonov-Bohm effect (ABE) is enhanced several times for voltages larger than the Thouless energy. The enhancement persists even in the presence of inelastic ...
We study the influence of a DC bias voltage V on quantum interference corrections to the measured differential conductance in metallic mesoscopic wires and rings. The amplitude of both universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) and Aharonov-Bohm effect (ABE) is enhanced several times for voltages larger than the Thouless energy. The enhancement persists even in the presence of inelastic electron-electron scattering up to V similar to 1 mV. For larger voltages electron-phonon collisions lead to the amplitude decaying as a power law for the UCF and exponentially for the ABE. We obtain good agreement of the experimental data with a model which takes into account the decrease of the electron phase-coherence length due to electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering.
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| Item type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Europhysics Letters | ||||||
| Publisher: | EDP Sciences | ||||||
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| Volume: | 59 | ||||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 437-443 | ||||||
| Date | 1 August 2002 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Weiss > Group Christoph Strunk | ||||||
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| Keywords | AHARONOV-BOHM OSCILLATIONS; NONLINEAR CONDUCTANCE; FLUCTUATIONS; WIRES; RELAXATION; ENSEMBLE; SAMPLES; ENERGY; LOOPS | ||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||||
| Item ID | 8081 |
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