Abstract
We present a study of the effect of surface contact potential in a mechanical break junction experiment. Using amplitude-modulated Kelvin probe microscopy (KPM), we show that the surface potential of a real metal is highly non-uniform and is strongly distance-dependent. Based on our KPM results, we propose a model in which a current is induced from the capacitive coupling of the surface potential and accounts for much of the observed shifts of the conductance peaks from integer multiples. The significance of our results in other areas of physics is also discussed.
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