Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in a single-electron transistor

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 fluctu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2008-02, Vol.100 (6), p.066801-066801, Article 066801
Hauptverfasser: Kubala, Björn, König, Jürgen, Pekola, Jukka
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.100.066801