Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 2, October 2008
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Article Number | 27002 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/27002 | |
Published online | 24 September 2008 |
High-temperature excess current and quantum suppression of electronic backscattering
1
University of Gothenburg, Department of Physics - SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden, EU
2
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics - SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden, EU
3
Heriot-Watt University, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences - Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK, EU
Corresponding author: gustav.sonne@physics.gu.se
Received:
17
April
2008
Accepted:
31
August
2008
We consider the electronic current through a one-dimensional conductor
in the ballistic transport regime and show that the quantum oscillations of a weakly pinned single-scattering target results in a
temperature- and bias-voltage independent excess current at large bias
voltages. This is a genuine quantum effect on transport that derives from an exponential reduction of electron backscattering in the
elastic channel due to quantum delocalisation of the scatterer and from a suppression of low-energy electron backscattering in the
inelastic channels caused by the Pauli exclusion principle. We show that both the mass of the target and the frequency of its quantum
vibrations can be measured by studying the differential conductance and the excess current. We apply our analysis to the particular case
of a weakly pinned molecule encapsulated by a single-wall
carbon nanotube and find that the discussed phenomena are experimentally observable.
PACS: 72.10.-d – Theory of electronic transport; scattering mechanisms / 73.23.-b – Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems / 73.23.Ad – Ballistic transport
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