metal nanowire has been investigated theoretically. The size oscillations of the Fermi energy
have been calculated within the model of an infinite potential well in terms of the
perturbation theory. The calculations have been carried out for Au and Al. It has been shown
that the cross-sectional ellipticity with a low eccentricity can be taken into account in the first-
order perturbation theory by modifying the boundary conditions for the radial wave function …