We study the influence of a DC bias voltage V on quantum interference
corrections to the measured differential conductance in metallic mesoscopic
wires and rings. The amplitude of both universal conductance fluctuations (UCF)
and Aharonov-Bohm effect (ABE) is enhanced several times for voltages larger
than the Thouless energy. The enhancement persists even in the presence of
inelastic electron-electron scattering up to V ~ 1 mV. For larger voltages
electron-phonon collisions lead to the amplitude decaying as a power law for
the UCF and exponentially for the ABE. We obtain good agreement of the
experimental data with a model which takes into account the decrease of the
electron phase-coherence length due to electron-electron and electron-phonon
scattering.Comment: New title, refined analysis. 7 pages, 3 figures, to be published in
Europhysics Letter
