Smearing of Coulomb Blockade by Resonant Tunneling

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4 October 2000

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0010068

Abstract

We study the Coulomb blockade in a grain coupled to a lead via a resonant impurity level. We show that the strong energy dependence of the transmission coefficient through the impurity level can have a dramatic effect on the quantization of the grain charge. In particular, if the resonance is sufficiently narrow, the Coulomb staircase shows very sharp steps even if the transmission through the impurity at the Fermi energy is perfect. This is in contrast to the naive expectation that perfect transmission should completely smear charging effects.

Keywords

RESONANT TUNNELING
COULOMB BLOCKADE
IMPURITY LEVEL
GRAIN COUPLED
QUANTIZATION
TUNNELING
CHARGE
SMEAR

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Version 1, 2000-10-04, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 85 (21), 4582.

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