Cotunneling at resonance for the single-electron transistor

Jürgen König, Herbert Schoeller, Gerd Schön

Published 1997-02-21Version 1

We study electron transport through a small metallic island in the perturbative regime. Using a recently developed diagrammatic technique, we calculate the occupation of the island as well as the conductance through the transistor in forth order in the tunneling matrix elements, a process referred to as cotunneling. Our formulation does not require the introduction of a cut-off. At resonance we find significant modifications of previous theories and good agreement with recent experiments.