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TheThe ProblemProblem ofof TrueTrue MacroscopicMacroscopic ChargeChargeQuantizationQuantization inin CoulombCoulomb BlockadeBlockade
cond-mat/0702400
Igor Burmistrov+ and Adrianus Pruisken*
+L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics*Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam
L.D.Landau Memorial Conference "Advances in Theoretical Physics"
June 22-26, 2008 Chernogolovka, Russia
Discussions: A.G. AbanovYu.G. Makhlin
Introduction –1
Coulomb blockade …
Introduction
Single electron transistor (SET) Equivalent circuit for SET
Single electron box (SEB)
Single charge tunneling, ed. by Grabert and Devoret, 1992
Introduction –2
Coulomb blockade …
Introduction
The SET parameters
Beloborodov, Efetov, Altland, Hekking, 2001Efetov, Tschersich, 2003
Number of transport channels
Tunneling matrix elements
Tunneling conductances
Charging energy
Level spacing on the island
Temperature
External charge
[in units ]
Introduction –3
Coulomb blockade …
Introduction
How does discreteness of the charge manifest itself at T=0 ?
Ground state energy
where h = Ec(1-2q)
where is the operator of the excess particle number on the island
-2 -1.5 -1 -0.5 0.5 1 1.5 2q
1
2EnêEc
h
At
Isolated island (gl,r=0) Periodic in q
Introduction –4
Coulomb blockade …
Introduction
How does discreteness of the charge manifest itself at T=0 ?
Non-isolated island
At T=0
where g = gl+gr
QQ is not quantized at is not quantized at T=0T=0
for any for any gg!!
What quantity is quantized What quantity is quantized
at at T=0T=0??
Matveev, 1991Schoeller, Schön, 1994
0.5 1q
0.5
1
Q
gπ0
g=0
ResultsR
esults -1
Coulomb blockade …
Novel quantity
where is current operator for the SET, V=Vr-Vl is the voltage drop
N.B. commutator
ResultsR
esults -2
Coulomb blockade …
Temperature dependence (explicit calculations)
Weak coupling
0.5 1q
0.5
1
q'
ResultsR
esults -3
Coulomb blockade …
Temperature dependence (explicit calculations)
where
0.5 1q
0.5
1
q'
T>0T=0
qq00 is quantized at is quantized at T=0T=0
Strong coupling and
ConjectureC
onjecture -1
Coulomb blockade …
qq00 is quantized at is quantized at T=0 T=0 independent of g independent of g
i) Decoupling Hc by the Hubbard-Stratonovich field
ii) Integration over fermions to the lowest order in HT
AES modelA
ES
model -
1
Coulomb blockade …
Microscopic Hamiltonian
where
AES modelA
ES
model -
2
Coulomb blockade …
Effective action in imaginary time
Ambegaokar, Eckern, Schön, 1982
integer
and
N.B. AES model is known also as circular brane model
Lukyanov, Zamolodchikov, 2003Lukyanov, Werner, 2006
AES modelA
ES
model -
4
Coulomb blockade …
Nontrivial topology and instantons
Convenient variables
Topological charge (winding number)
Instanton W>0 |za|<1
Anti-instanton W<0 |za|>1
Instanton solution (2|W| zero modes )
Classical action
Korshunov, 1987Bulgadaev, 1987Nazarov, 1999
Response to change in the boundary conditionR
esponse -1
Coulomb blockade …
Expansion in topological sectors
Let us formally consider Z[x] with continuous x and define
Response to change in the boundary conditionR
esponse -2
Coulomb blockade …
Analytic continuation
From W to W-n
where
Analytic continuation
where
Hence
N.B. it is solution of classical equation of motion
Response to change in the boundary conditionR
esponse -3
Coulomb blockade …
Response parameters
Finally,
where
Physical observablesP
hysical observables -1
Coulomb blockade …
Relation of g’ and q’ with physical quantities
Average charge Q, quantum current noise and q’
SET conductance G and g’
It can be shown in Keldysh technique
Weak coupling -
1
Coulomb blockade …
Weak coupling -
Perturbation theory in 1/g (W=0)
Quadratic part of the action
Correlation function
Guinea, Schön, 1986
where and
Weak coupling -
2
Coulomb blockade …
Weak coupling -
Instanton contribution (W=± 1)
Classical action Gaussian fluctuations around instanton
Correlation function
Analyticcontinuation
Panyukov, Zaikin, 1991Wang, Grabert, 1996
Weak coupling -
3
Coulomb blockade …
Weak coupling -
Instanton contribution (W=± 1)
At high temperatures
Notice
Altland, Glazman, Kamenev,Meyer, 2006
Oscillations in q’ is much more pronounced than in Q
Strong coupling -
1
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Effective action for |q-1/2|¿ 1 and T¿ Ec
Isolated island (g=0)
where h=Ec(1-2q)
Two-level Hamiltonian
Average charge
Operators
Strong coupling -
2
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Non-isolated island
Grand partition function and correlations
Larkin, Melnikov, 1971Sachdev, Ye, 1993Zhu,Si; Zarand,Demler, 2002
where – pseudofermions, chemical potential
Effective action for and (XY Bose-Kondo)
Equations for and
Strong coupling -
3
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Leading logarithmic approximation –
Pseudofermion Green function renormalization
where
where and
Strong coupling -
4
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Leading logarithmic approximation –
Average charge
T=0 - Matveev, 1991T>0 - Schoeller, Schön, 1994
Correlation function
Strong coupling -
6
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
(Schoeller, Schön, 1994)
For
Physical observables q’ and g’
Strong coupling -
6
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Inelastic co-tunneling at
(Averin, Nazarov, 1990)
Contributions to g’ and q’
Conclusions -
1
Coulomb blockade …
Conclusions
Novel quantity q0 is introduced into the Coulomb blockade problem
At it is shown that q0 is quantized at T=0 (with exponential accuracy) in the leading logarithmic approximation contrary to the average charge Q on the SET island
Inelastic co-tunneling does not destroy the quantization of q’
Conclusions -
1
Coulomb blockade …
Experimental realization
Main difficulty is to measure non-symmetrizedcurrent noise in the SET
(Lesovik, Loosen, 1997)
(Onac, Balestro, Trauzettel, Lodewijk, Kouwenhoven, 2006)
LC curcuit inductively coupled to the SET
AES modelA
ES
model -
3
Coulomb blockade …
Circular brane model
where X and Y are boson fields on the surface of a half cylinder
Lukyanov, Zamolodchikov, 2003…Lukyanov, Werner, 2006
with q=0 and
Integrating out the ‘bulk’
Physical observablesP
hysical observables -1
Coulomb blockade …
Tunneling conductance G of the SET
Standard trick
Average current
Matsubara correlation function
Retarded correlation function
Physical observablesP
hysical observables -2
Coulomb blockade …
Tunneling conductance G of the SET
Average current
By definition
Ben-Jacob, Mottola, Schön, 1983
Strong coupling -
2
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Pseudofermions
Spin language
Fermion language
Npf=1
Strong coupling -
5
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Correlation function
No vertex renormalization !
Strong coupling -
6
Coulomb blockade …
Strong coupling –
Physical observables q’ and g’
Correlation function for
(Schoeller, Schön, 1994)
with
qq00 is quantized at is quantized at T=0T=0 independent of independent of gg !!