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Coulomb blockade of tunneling between disordered conductors
1Fakultät für Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Physical Review Letters
|October 3, 2001
Abstract:
We determine the zero-bias anomaly of the conductance of tunnel junctions by an approach unifying the conventional Coulomb blockade theory for ultrasmall junctions with the diffusive anomalies in disordered conductors. Both electron-electron interactions within the electrodes and electron-hole interactions between the electrodes are taken into account nonperturbatively. Explicit results are given for one- and two-dimensional junctions, and the crossover to ultrasmall junctions is discussed.