Jellium model of metallic nanocohesion

C. A. Stafford; D. Baeriswyl; J. Bürki

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.2863

Jellium model of metallic nanocohesion

C. A. Stafford, D. Baeriswyl, J. Bürki

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A unified treatment of the cohesive and conducting properties of metallic nanostructures in terms of the electronic scattering matrix is developed. A simple picture of metallic nanocohesion in which conductance channels act as delocalized chemical bonds is derived in the jellium approximation. Universal force oscillations of order ε_F/λ_F are predicted when a metallic quantum wire is stretched to the breaking point, which are synchronized with quantized jumps in the conductance.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2863-2866
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	79
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.2863
State	Published - 1997
Externally published	Yes

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