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Coulomb charging energy for arbitrary tunneling strength

Xiaohui Wang, Reinhold Egger, Hermann Grabert

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9704197

Abstract

The Coulomb energy of a small metallic island coupled to an electrode by a tunnel junction is investigated. We employ Monte Carlo simulations to determine the effective charging energy for arbitrary tunneling strength. For small tunneling conductance, the data agree with analytical results based on a perturbative treatment of electron tunneling, while for very strong tunneling recent semiclassical results for large conductance are approached. The data allow for an identification of the range of validity of various analytical predictions.

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