Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in a Single-Electron Transistor
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2008
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066801/1-4
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Physical Review Letters, Volume 100, Issue 6
Abstract
We study the influence of Coulomb interaction on the thermoelectric transport coefficients for a metallic single-electron transistor. By performing a perturbation expansion up to second order in the tunnel-barrier conductance, we include sequential and cotunneling processes as well as quantum fluctuations that renormalize the charging energy and the tunnel conductance. We find that Coulomb interaction leads to a strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law: the Lorenz ratio becomes gate-voltage dependent for sequential tunneling, and is increased by a factor 9/5 in the cotunneling regime. Finally, we suggest a measurement scheme for an experimental realization.Description
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Coulomb interaction, thermoelectric transport coefficients, metallic single-electron transistors, tunneling
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Kubala, Björn & König, Jürgen & Pekola, Jukka. 2008. Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in a Single-Electron Transistor. Physical Review Letters. Volume 100, Issue 6. P. 066801/1-4. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.066801.
