The effect of inelastic processes on tunneling
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We study an electron that interacts with phonons or other linear or nonlinear excitations as it resonantly tunnels. The method we use is based on mapping a many-body problem in a large variational space exactly onto a one-body problem. The method is conceptually simpler than previous Green's function approaches, and allows the essentially exact numerical solution of much more general problems. We solve tunneling problems with transverse channels, multiple sites coupled to phonons, and multiple phonon degrees of freedom and excitations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9508052,
title = {The effect of inelastic processes on tunneling},
author = {J. Bonca and S. A. Trugman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9508052},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, REVTex, 4 figures in compressed tar .ps format