Electron transport in granular metals

被引：25

作者：

Altland, A

Glazman, LI

Kamenev, A

机构：

[1] Inst Theoret Phys, D-50937 Cologne, Germany

[2] Univ Minnesota, Dept Phys, Minneapolis, MN 55454 USA

[3] Univ Minnesota, WI Fine Theoret Phys Inst, Minneapolis, MN 55454 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2004年 / 92卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.026801

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We consider thermodynamic and transport properties of a long granular array with strongly connected grains (intergrain conductance g>1). We find that the system's conductance and differential capacitance exhibits activated behavior, similar toexp{-T-*/T}. The gap T-* represents the energy needed to create a long single-electron charge soliton propagating through the array. This scale is parametrically larger than the energy at which conventional perturbation theory breaks down.

引用

页码：4 / 268014

页数：4

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