IOP Publishing, Nanotechnology, 25(22), p. 254011, 2011
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/25/254011
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Reversible bipolar nano-switches that can be set and read electronically in a solid-state two-terminal device are very promising for applications. We have performed molecular-dynamics simulations that mimic systems with oxygen vacancies interacting via realistic potentials and driven by an external bias voltage. The competing short- and long-range interactions among charged mobile vacancies lead to density fluctuations and short-range ordering, while illustrating some aspects of observed experimental behavior, such as memristor polarity inversion. ; Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures