Coulomb Blockade without Tunnel Junctions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-10-31 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We find that tunnel junctions are not needed to provide single electron effects in a metallic island. Eventually the tunnel junction may be replaced by an arbitrary scatterer. It is important that even a {\it diffusive} scatterer provides a sufficient isolation for single electron effects to persist. To formulate this in exact terms, we derive and analyze the effective action that describes an arbitrary scatterer. We also consider the fluctuations of the effective charging energy.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9808340,
title = {Coulomb Blockade without Tunnel Junctions},
author = {Yuli V. Nazarov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9808340},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, no figures(just for a change)