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Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226804 (2005) [4 pages]

Mesoscopic Oscillations of the Conductance of Disordered Metallic Samples as a Function of Temperature

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B. Spivak1, A. Zyuzin2, and D. H. Cobden1
1Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
2A. F. Ioffe Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia

Received 19 April 2005; published 23 November 2005

We show theoretically and experimentally that the conductance of small disordered samples exhibits random oscillations as a function of temperature. The amplitude of the oscillations decays as a power law of temperature, and their characteristic period is of the order of the temperature itself.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.226804
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.226804
PACS:
73.23.−b, 72.20.Dp, 72.80.Ng