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Physical Review Letters, volume 39, issue 18, pages 1167-1169

Maximum Metallic Resistance in Thin Wires

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date1977-10-31
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
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Impact factor8.6
ISSN00319007, 10797114
General Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
It is argued that electronic states should be localized in any wire whose impurity resistance is greater than about 10 k\ensuremath{\Omega}. At sufficiently low temperatures this will lead to a ${T}^{\ensuremath{-}2}$ increase in resistance because one-dimensional phonons or excited electrons are needed to cause transitions between localized states. An estimate is made of the temperature needed to observe this effect.

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Thouless D. J. Maximum Metallic Resistance in Thin Wires // Physical Review Letters. 1977. Vol. 39. No. 18. pp. 1167-1169.
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Thouless D. J. Maximum Metallic Resistance in Thin Wires // Physical Review Letters. 1977. Vol. 39. No. 18. pp. 1167-1169.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1103/physrevlett.39.1167
UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.1167
TI - Maximum Metallic Resistance in Thin Wires
T2 - Physical Review Letters
AU - Thouless, D. J.
PY - 1977
DA - 1977/10/31
PB - American Physical Society (APS)
SP - 1167-1169
IS - 18
VL - 39
SN - 0031-9007
SN - 1079-7114
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@article{1977_Thouless,
author = {D. J. Thouless},
title = {Maximum Metallic Resistance in Thin Wires},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
year = {1977},
volume = {39},
publisher = {American Physical Society (APS)},
month = {oct},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.1167},
number = {18},
pages = {1167--1169},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.39.1167}
}
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Thouless, D. J.. “Maximum Metallic Resistance in Thin Wires.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 39, no. 18, Oct. 1977, pp. 1167-1169. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.1167.
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