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HL: Halbleiterphysik
HL 5: Quantenpunkte und -dr
ähte: Transporteigenschaften I
HL 5.6: Talk
Monday, March 24, 2003, 11:45–12:00, POT/81
The Coulomb Blockade in Quantum Boxes — •Frithjof Anders1, Eran Lebanon2, and Avraham Schiller2 — 1Institut für Festkörperphysik, TU Darmstadt,64289 Darmstadt, Germany — 2Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
The charging of a quantum box connected to a lead by a single-mode point contact is solved for arbitrary temperatures, tunneling amplitudes, and gate voltages, using a variant of Wilson’s numerical renormalization group. The charge inside the box and the capacitance of the junction are calculated on equal footing for all physical regimes, including weak tunneling, near perfect transmission, and the crossover regime in between. At the charge plateaus, perturbation theory is found to break down at fairly weak tunneling amplitudes. Near perfect transmission, we confirm Matveev’s scenario for the smearing of the Coulomb-blockade staircase. A surprising reentrance of the Coulomb-blockade staircase is found for strong tunneling amplitudes. At the degeneracy points, we obtain two-channel Kondo behavior directly from the Coulomb-blockade Hamiltonian, without the restriction to two charge configurations, or the introduction of an effective cutoff.