Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Shot Noise in Nanoscale Conductors From First Principles   We describe a field-theoretic approach to calculate quantum shot noise in
nanoscale conductors from first principles. Our starting point is the
second-quantization field operator to calculate shot noise in terms of single
quasi-particle wavefunctions obtained self-consistently within density
functional theory. The approach is valid in both linear and nonlinear response
and is particularly suitable in studying shot noise in atomic-scale conductors.
As an example we study shot noise in Si atomic wires between metal electrodes.
We find that shot noise is strongly nonlinear as a function of bias and it is
enhanced for one- and two-Si wires due to the large contribution from the metal
electrodes. For longer wires it shows an oscillatory behavior for even and odd
number of atoms with opposite trend with respect to the conductance, indicating
that current fluctuations persist with increasing wire length.

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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin