Charge Tunneling Rates in Ultrasmall Junctions

By G. Ingold, Yuli V. Nazarov. 2005

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With the advances of microfabrication techniques in recent years it has become possible to fabricate tunnel junctions of increasingly smaller dimensions and thereby decreasing capacitance C. Nowadays one can study tunnel junctions in a regime where the charging energy E c = e2/2C is larger than the thermal energy k B T. Then charging effects play an important role and this has been the subject of a by now large body of both theoretical and experimental work.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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• Quantum properties of atomic-sized conductors (2002, background): “In the left panel the contact consists of a single weakly transmitted channel, and the conductance around zero bias is well-described by the standard theory of environmental Coulomb blockade, valid for tunnel contacts, as expected (dashed curve, right axes, relative to the total conductance) [425].”