Coulomb blockade in metallic grains at large conductance

I. S. Beloborodov and A. V. Andreev
Phys. Rev. B 65, 195311 – Published 2 May 2002
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Abstract

We study Coulomb blockade effects in the thermodynamic quantities of a weakly disordered metallic grain coupled to a metallic lead by a tunneling contact with a large conductance gT. We consider the case of broken time-reversal symmetry and obtain expressions for both the ensemble averaged amplitude of the Coulomb blockade oscillations of the thermodynamic potential and the correlator of its mesoscopic fluctuations for a finite mean level spacing δ in the grain. We develop a method that allows for an exact evaluation of the functional integral arising from disorder averaging. The results and the method are applicable in the temperature range δTEC.

  • Received 3 March 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.195311

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

I. S. Beloborodov and A. V. Andreev

  • Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974;
  • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, CB 390, Boulder, Colorado 80390;
  • Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany

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Vol. 65, Iss. 19 — 15 May 2002

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