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Experimental evidence and consequences of rare events in quantum tunneling
Authors:V. Da Costa  Y. Henry  F. Bardou  M. Romeo  K. Ounadjela
Affiliation:(1) Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, 23 rue du Loess, 67037 Strasbourg (UMR 7504 CNRS – Université Louis Pasteur) Cedex, France (email: victor@michelangelo.u-strasbg.fr), FR
Abstract:
Tiny spatial fluctuations of tunnel barrier parameters are shown to have dramatic consequences on the statistical properties of quantum tunneling. A direct experimental evidence is provided that the tunnel current through metal-oxide junctions, imaged at a nanometric scale, exhibits broad statistical distributions extending over more than 4 orders of magnitude. Striking effects of broad current distributions are shown: the total tunnel transmission is dominated by few highly transmitting sites and the typical current density varies strongly with the size of the junction. Moreover, self-averaging of the tunnel current fluctuations occurs only for unexpectedly large junction areas. Received 1 April 1999
Keywords:PACS. 05.40.-a Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion –   73.40.Gk Tunneling –   73.40.Rw Metal-insulator-metal structures
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