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Charge fluctuations in single-electron tunneling oscillations

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2012-03-14 v2

Abstract

It has been predicted that in the presence of a sufficiently high-dissipative environment transport in a small tunnel junction can become extremely regular, giving rise to the phenomenon of single-electron tunneling oscillations. Recent progress in detection of high-frequency current fluctuations and the interest in single-electron sources motivate further investigations on the expected accuracy of the charge oscillations as a function of the impedance of the environment. In this paper we study theoretically the charge-fluctuation spectrum at finite frequency for the system at hand, and investigate its evolution as a function of the external impedance. The evolution and the disappearance of the single-electron oscillations peak is described by analytical and numerical methods.

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@article{arxiv.1111.4080,
  title  = {Charge fluctuations in single-electron tunneling oscillations},
  author = {Carlotta Negri and Fabio Pistolesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4080},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

11 pages, 12 figures

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