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Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Vol.14, No.4, 2399-2402, 1996
Single-Electron Charging of a Molecule Observed in Scanning Tunneling Scattering Experiments
Two extreme cases can be solved for electron charging effects where the first one ignores the electron correlation and the second one treats only one-electron scattering. So far, Coulomb blockade has been treated by the orthodox theory [Likharev, IBM J. Res. Dev. 32, 144 (1988)], where the charging energy is expressed as e(2)/2C using the capacitance C of a tunnel junction. On the other hand, one-electron scattering can be solved exactly by using the Schrodinger equation. But it is difficult to solve for a many-body system by the Schrodinger equation. In this article, stress is placed on the case where the electric field cannot be ignored anymore. A treatment of the charging energy is proposed using a screening model or an electromagnetic field model by employing a cavity model in the field of photon.
Keywords:ROOM-TEMPERATURE