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Stopa M. Rectifying behavior in Coulomb blockades: charging rectifiers. Phys Rev Lett. 2002;88(14):146802doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.146802.
Stopa, M. (2002). Rectifying behavior in Coulomb blockades: charging rectifiers. Physical review letters, 88(14), 146802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.146802
Stopa, M. "Rectifying behavior in Coulomb blockades: charging rectifiers." Physical review letters vol. 88,14 (2002): 146802. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.146802
Stopa M. Rectifying behavior in Coulomb blockades: charging rectifiers. Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Apr 08;88(14):146802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.146802. Epub 2002 Mar 25. PMID: 11955166.
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Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Apr 08;88(14):146802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.146802. Epub 2002 Mar 25.

Rectifying behavior in Coulomb blockades: charging rectifiers.

Physical review letters

M Stopa

Affiliations

  1. Tarucha Mesoscopic Correlation Project, ERATO-JST, 4S-308S, NTT Atsugi Research and Development Laboratories, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi-shi Kanagawa-ken, 243-0198 Japan.

PMID: 11955166 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.146802

Abstract

We introduce examples of tunneling and diffusive, Coulomb-regulated rectifiers based on the Coulomb blockade formalism in discrete and continuum systems, respectively. Nonlinearity of the interacting dynamics profoundly enhances the inherent asymmetry of the devices by reducing the Hilbert space of accessible states. The discrete charging rectifier is structurally similar to hybrid molecular electronic rectifiers, while the continuum-charging rectifier is based on a model of ionic flow through a pore (ion channel) with an artificial branch. The devices are formally related to ratchet systems with spatial periodicity replaced by a winding number: the current.

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