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Coherent photon assisted cotunneling in a Coulomb blockade device

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-28 v3

Abstract

We study cotunneling in a double junction Coulomb blockade device under the influence of time dependent potentials. It is shown that the ac-bias leads to photon assisted cotunneling which in some cases may dominate the transport. We derive a general non-perturbative expression for the tunneling current in the presence of oscillating potentials and give a perturbative expression for the photon assisted cotunneling current.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9607139,
  title  = {Coherent photon assisted cotunneling in a Coulomb blockade device},
  author = {Karsten Flensberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9607139},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Replaced with a longer paper which includes a non-perturbative calculation. 13 pages with 1 figure. To be published in Physical Review B