Coulomb Blockade and Insulator-to-Metal Quantum Phase Transition

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2001-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104310v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 revtex pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2002-00327-4

We analyze an interplay between Coulomb blockade and quantum fluctuations in a coherent conductor (with dimensionless conductance $g \gtrsim 1$) attached to an Ohmic shunt. We demonstrate that at T=0 the system can be either an insulator or a metal depending on whether its total resistance is larger or smaller than $h/e^2\approx 25.8$ k$\Omega$. In a metallic phase the Coulomb gap is fully suppressed by quantum fluctuations. We briefly discuss possible relation of this effect to recent experiments indicating the presence of a metal-insulator phase transition in 2d disordered systems.

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