Coulomb charging energy for arbitrary tunneling strength
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 38 (7) , 545-550
- https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00281-7
Abstract
The Coulomb energy of a small metallic island coupled to an electrode by a tunnel junction is investigated. We employ Monte Carlo simulations to determine the effective charging energy for arbitrary tunneling strength. For small tunneling conductance, the data agree with analytical results based on a perturbative treatment of electron tunneling, while for very strong tunneling recent semiclassical results for large conductance are approached. The data allow for an identification of the range of validity of various analytical predictions.Keywords
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