Coulomb blockade oscillations in the thermopower of open quantum dots.

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  • A V Andreev
  • K A Matveev
چکیده

We consider Coulomb blockade oscillations of thermoelectric coefficients of a single electron transistor based on a quantum dot strongly coupled to one of the leads. An analytic expression for the thermopower as a function of temperature T and the reflection amplitude r in the quantum point contact is obtained. Two regimes can be identified: T<>EC/r/2, where EC is the charging energy of the dot. The former regime is characterized by a weak logarithmic dependence of the thermopower on the reflection coefficient, in the latter the thermopower is linear in the reflection coefficient /r/2 but depends on temperature only logarithmically.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 86 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001