Quantum suppression of the Rayleigh instability in nanowires

F. Kassubek; C. A. Stafford; Hermann Grabert; Raymond E. Goldstein

doi:10.1088/0951-7715/14/1/310

Quantum suppression of the Rayleigh instability in nanowires

F. Kassubek
, C. A. Stafford
, Hermann Grabert
, Raymond E. Goldstein

Physics

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Abstract

A linear stability analysis of metallic nanowires is performed in the free-electron model using quantum chaos techniques. It is found that the classical instability of a long wire under surface tension can be completely suppressed by electronic shell effects, leading to stable cylindrical configurations whose electrical conductance is a magic number 1, 3, 5, 6, . . . times the quantum of conductance. Our results are quantitatively consistent with recent experiments with alkali metal nanowires.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	167-177
Number of pages	11
Journal	Nonlinearity
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/14/1/310
State	Published - Jan 2001

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Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Mathematical Physics
General Physics and Astronomy
Applied Mathematics

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