Re: Nanotubes may have no temperature


Zigoteau wrote:
> Might I also recommend that you read R. Landauer, IBM J.
> Res. Dev. 1 (1951) 251, in connection with conductance quantization,
> which you do not appear to be up to speed with yet either.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zigoteau.

In Landauer formalism, T~1 for conductive path, while T<<1 for barrier
path. Regardless of the transmission coefficient, it is the discrete
number of channels that causes the quantized behavior to be exhibited.
The conductance is basically a count of the channels.

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