| Download ( PDF | 110kB) Repository staff only |
Cotunneling thermopower of single electron transistors
Article
Turek, Marko and Matveev, K. A. (2002) Cotunneling thermopower of single electron transistors. Physical Review B 65, p. 115332.DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.1508
Abstract
We study the thermopower of a quantum dot weakly coupled to two reservoirs by tunnel junctions. At low temperatures the transport through the dot is suppressed by charging effects (Coulomb blockade). As a result the thermopower shows an oscillatory dependence on the gate voltage. We study this dependence in the limit of low temperatures where transport through the dot is dominated by the ...
We study the thermopower of a quantum dot weakly coupled to two reservoirs by tunnel junctions. At low temperatures the transport through the dot is suppressed by charging effects (Coulomb blockade). As a result the thermopower shows an oscillatory dependence on the gate voltage. We study this dependence in the limit of low temperatures where transport through the dot is dominated by the processes of inelastic cotunneling. We also obtain a crossover formula for intermediate temperatures which connects our cotunneling results to the known sawtooth behavior in the sequential tunneling regime. As the temperature is lowered, the amplitude of thermopower oscillations increases, and their shape changes qualitatively.
Involved Institutions
Details
| Item type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review B | ||||||
| Publisher | AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC | ||||||
| Place of Publication | COLLEGE PK | ||||||
| Volume | 65 | ||||||
| Page Range | p. 115332 | ||||||
| Date | 2002 | ||||||
| Date of publication | 05 Aug 2009 13:30 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics | ||||||
| Identification Number |
| ||||||
| Related URLs |
| ||||||
| Keywords | COULOMB-BLOCKADE OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM-DOT; CONDUCTANCE; | ||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||||
| Item ID | 1508 |
Download Statistics
Download Statistics