{
  "id": "cond-mat/0305246",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2003-05-12T08:11:09.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-05-12T08:11:09.000Z",
  "title": "Electron Transport in Granular Metals",
  "authors": [
    "Alexander Altland",
    "Leonid I. Glazman",
    "Alex Kamenev"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 1 figure",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.026801",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We consider thermodynamic and transport properties of a long granular array with strongly connected grains (inter-grain conductance g>>1.) We find that the system exhibits activated behavior of conductance and thermodynamic density of states ~exp(-T*/T) where the gap, T*, is parametrically larger than the energy at which conventional perturbation theory breaks down. The scale T* represents energy needed to create a long single-electron charge soliton propagating through the array.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2003-05-12T08:11:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "granular metals",
      "electron transport",
      "conventional perturbation theory breaks",
      "long single-electron charge soliton propagating",
      "long granular array"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}