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Mesoscopic oscillations of the conductance of disordered metallic samples as a function of temperature
B Spivak1, A Zyuzin, D H Cobden
1Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Abstract:
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.
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