Non-Gaussian resistance noise near electrical breakdown in granular materials

C Pennetta, E Alfinito, L Reggiani and S Ruffo

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 340, issue 1, 380-387

Abstract: The distribution of resistance fluctuations of conducting thin films with granular structure near electrical breakdown is studied by numerical simulations. The film is modeled as a resistor network in a steady state determined by the competition between two biased processes, breaking and recovery. Systems of different sizes and with different levels of internal disorder are considered. Sharp deviations from a Gaussian distribution are found near breakdown and the effect increases with the degree of internal disorder. We show that in general this non-Gaussianity is related to the finite size of the system and vanishes in the large size limit. Nevertheless, near the critical point of the conductor–insulator transition, deviations from Gaussianity persist when the size is increased and the distribution of resistance fluctuations is well fitted by the universal Bramwell–Holdsworth–Pinton distribution.

Keywords: Non-Gaussian distributions; Non-equilibrium steady-states; Electrical breakdown (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.04.030

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