Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.446, No.4-6, 365-369, 2007
Novel feature of quantum transport through conducting bridge: Correlation between surface disorder and bulk disorder
We focus a novel transport phenomenon by studying the effect of surface disorder on quantum transport through a finite size conductor with side coupled metallic electrodes. In the strong disorder regime the current amplitude increases with the increase of the surface disorder strength, while, the amplitude decreases in the weak disorder regime. This behavior is completely opposite to that of bulk disordered system. In this Letter, we also investigate the effects of the size of the conductor and the transverse magnetic field on such transport and see that the transport properties are significantly influenced by them. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.