Resonant Tunneling in a Dissipative Environment

Details Resonant Tunneling in a Dissipative Environment Resonant Tunneling in a Dissipative Environment

2010-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/1010.1527v1

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241402R (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.241402

We measure tunneling through a single quantum level in a carbon nanotube quantum dot connected to resistive metal leads. For the electrons tunneling to/from the nanotube, the leads serve as a dissipative environment, which suppresses the tunneling rate. In the regime of sequential tunneling, the height of the single-electron conductance peaks increases as the temperature is lowered, although it scales more weekly than the conventional 1/T. In the resonant tunneling regime (temperature smaller than the level width), the peak width approaches saturation, while the peak height starts to decrease. Overall, the peak height shows a non-monotonic temperature dependence. We associate this unusual behavior with the transition from the sequential to the resonant tunneling through a single quantum level in a dissipative environment.

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