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Author
I.S. Burmistrov
A.M.M. Pruisken
Year
2008
Title
The problem of true macroscopic charge quantization in the Coulomb blockade
Event
NATO advanced research workshop on electron transport in nanosystems Yalta
Book/source title
Electron Transport in Nanosystems
Pages (from-to)
59-68
Publisher
Dordrecht: Springer
ISBN
9781402091445
9781402091452
ISBN (electronic)
9781402091469
Serie
NATO science for peace and security series. B: Physics and biophysics: 1874-6500
Document type
Conference contribution
Faculty
Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Institute
Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract
Based on the Ambegaokar-Eckern-Schön approach to the Coulomb blockade we develop a complete quantum theory of the single electron transistor. We identify a previously unrecognized physical observable in the problem that, unlike the usual average charge on the island, is robustly quantized for any finite value of the tunneling conductance as the temperature goes to the absolute zero. This novel quantity is fundamentally related to the non-symmetrized current noise of the system. Our results display all the super universal topological features of the θ-angle concept that previously arose in the theory of the quantum Hall effect.
URL
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Language
English
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.297852

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