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Coulomb Blockade of Tunneling between Disordered Conductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We determine the zero-bias anomaly of the conductance of tunnel junctions by an approach unifying the conventional Coulomb blockade theory for ultrasmall junctions with the diffusive anomalies in disordered conductors. Both, electron-electron interactions within the electrodes and electron-hole interactions between the electrodes are taken into account nonperturbatively. Explicit results are given for one- and two-dimensional junctions, and the crossover to ultrasmall junctions is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0102010,
  title  = {Coulomb Blockade of Tunneling between Disordered Conductors},
  author = {Joerg Rollbuehler and Hermann Grabert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0102010},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure. Final version published in Phys. Rev. Lett