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KA Matveev

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PubMed2000

Smearing of the coulomb blockade by resonant tunneling

We study the Coulomb blockade in a grain coupled to a lead via a resonant impurity level. We show that the strong energy dependence of the transmission coefficient through the impurity level can have a dramatic effect on the quantization of the grain charge. In particular, if the resonance is sufficiently narrow, the Coulomb staircase shows very sharp steps even if the transmission through the impurity at the Fermi energy is perfect. This is in contrast to the naive expectation that perfect transmission should completely smear charging effects.

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PubMed2000

g-factors of discrete levels in nanoparticles

Spin-orbit scattering suppresses Zeeman splitting of individual energy levels in small metal particles. This suppression becomes significant when the spin-orbit scattering rate tau(-1)(so) is comparable to the quantum level spacing delta. At small deltatau(so) the g-factor exhibits strong mesoscopic fluctuations. We find the shape of their distribution function using the random matrix theory, and express its parameters in terms of physical characteristics: tau(so), delta, the electron mean free path l, and the particle size L. At deltatau(so)-->0 the average g-factor levels off at a small value g approximately (l/L)(1/2). However, in 2D quantum dots the g-factor is strongly enhanced by spin-orbit coupling.

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