Inelastic electron transport in granular arrays

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2005.12.012zbMATH Open1159.82319arXivcond-mat/0507695OpenAlexW2088521272MaRDI QIDQ854878FDOQ854878

Authors: N. E. Zubov 

Publication date: 7 December 2006

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Transport properties of granular systems are governed by Coulomb blockade effects caused by the discreteness of the electron charge. We show that, in the limit of vanishing mean level spacing on the grains, the low-temperature behavior of 1d and 2d arrays is insulating at any inter-grain coupling (characterized by a dimensionless conductance g.) In 2d and g>>1, there is a sharp Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless crossover to the conducting phase at a certain temperature, T_{BKT}. These results are obtained by applying an instanton analysis to map the conventional `phase' description of granular arrays onto the dual `charge' representation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507695

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonslocalizationquantum transportmetal-insulator transitionCoulomb blockadegranular arrays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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