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Atomic discreteness and the nature of structural equilibrium in conductance histograms of electromigrated Cu nanocontacts
We investigate the histograms of conductance values obtained during controlled electromigration thinning of Cu thin films. We focus on the question whether the most frequently observed conductance values, apparent as peaks in conductance histograms, can be attributed to the atomic structure of the wire. To this end we calculate the …