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Terrier, C. ; Babic, D. ; Strunk, Christoph ; Nussbaumer, Thomas

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 typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleEurophysics Letters
Publisher:EDP Sciences
Volume:59
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:3
Page Range:pp. 437-443
Date1 August 2002
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Weiss > Group Christoph Strunk
Classification
NotationType
73.23.-bPACS
72.10.-dPACS
KeywordsAHARONOV-BOHM OSCILLATIONS; NONLINEAR CONDUCTANCE; FLUCTUATIONS; WIRES; RELAXATION; ENSEMBLE; SAMPLES; ENERGY; LOOPS
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
Item ID8081

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