{
  "id": "cond-mat/9911173",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-11-11T18:49:48.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-11-11T18:49:48.000Z",
  "title": "Conductance Suppression due to Correlated Electron Transport in Coupled Double-dots",
  "authors": [
    "Geza Toth",
    "Alexei O. Orlov",
    "Islamshah Amlani",
    "Craig S. Lent",
    "Gary H. Bernstein",
    "Gregory L. Snider"
  ],
  "comment": "19 pages [pre-print style], 8 figures, accepted for Phys. Rev. B",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B, vol. 60, number 24, 16906-16912 (15 Dec 1999-II)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.60.16906",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.str-el"
  ],
  "abstract": "The electrostatic interaction between two capacitively-coupled metal double-dots is studied at low temperatures. Experiments show that when the Coulomb blockade is lifted by applying appropriate gate biases to both double-dots, the conductance through each double-dot becomes significantly lower than when only one double-dot is conducting. A master equation is derived for the system and the results obtained agree well with the experimental data. The model suggests that the conductance lowering in each double-dot is caused by a single-electron tunneling in the other double-dot. Here, each double-dot responds to the instantaneous, rather than average, potentials on the other double-dot. This leads to correlated electron motion within the system, where the position of a single electron in one double-dot controls the tunneling rate through the other double-dot.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-11-11T18:49:48.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "correlated electron transport",
      "conductance suppression",
      "coupled double-dots",
      "applying appropriate gate biases",
      "low temperatures"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 19,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}