Electronic lifetimes in ballistic quantum dots electrostatically coupled to metallic environments

Details Electronic lifetimes in ballistic quantum dots electrostatically coupled to metallic environments Electronic lifetimes in ballistic quantum dots electrostatically coupled to metallic environments

2004-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402277v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.085310

We calculate the lifetime of low-energy electronic excitations in a two-dimensional quantum dot near a metallic gate. We find different behaviors depending on the relative values of the dot size, the dot-gate distance and the Thomas-Fermi screening length within the dot. The standard Fermi liquid behavior is obtained when the dot-gate distance is much shorter than the dot size or when it is so large that intrinsic effects dominate. Departures from the Fermi liquid behavior are found in the unscreened dipole case of small dots far away from the gate, for which a Caldeira-Leggett model is applicable. At intermediate distances, a marginal Fermi liquid is obtained if there is sufficient screening within the dot. In these last two non-trivial cases, the level width decays as a power law with the dot-gate distance.

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