Single Charge Tunneling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction to Single Charge Tunneling

   • M. H. Devoret, H. Grabert

   Pages 1-19

3. Charge Tunneling Rates in Ultrasmall Junctions

   • Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Yu. V. Nazarov

   Pages 21-107

4. Transferring Electrons One By One

   • D. Esteve

   Pages 109-137

5. Josephson Effect in Low-Capacitance Tunnel Junctions

   • M. Tinkham

   Pages 139-166

6. Coulomb-Blockade Oscillations in Semiconductor Nanostructures

   • H. Van Houten, C. W. J. Beenakker, A. A. M. Staring

   Pages 167-216

7. Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of Charge and Co-Tunneling

   • D. V. Averin, Yu. V. Nazarov

   Pages 217-247

8. One-Dimensional Arrays of Small Tunnel Junctions

   • P. Delsing

   Pages 249-274

9. Single Charges in 2-Dimensional Junction Arrays

   • J. E. Mooij, Gerd Schön

   Pages 275-310

10. Possible Applications of the Single Charge Tunneling

    • D. V. Averin, K. K. Likharev

    Pages 311-332

11. Back Matter

    Pages 333-335

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The field of single charge tunneling comprises of phenomena where the tunneling of a microscopic charge, usually carried by an electron or a Cooper pair, leads to macro­ scopically observable effects. The first conference entirely devoted to this new field was the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Single Charge Tunneling held in Les Hauches, France, March 5-15, 1991. This book contains a series of tutorial articles based on lectures presented at the meeting. It was intended to provide both an introduction for nonexperts and a valuable reference summarizing the state of the art of single charge tun­ neling. A complementary publication with contributions by participants of the NATO Advanced Study Institute is the Special Issue on Single Charge Tunneling of Zeitschrift für Physik B, Vol. 85, pp. 317-468 (1991 ). That issue with original papers provides a snapshot af the leading edge of current research in the field. The success of the meeting and the publicatian of this volume was made possible through the generaus support af the NATO Scientific A:ffairs Division, Brussels, Belgium. The Centre de Physique des Hauches has provided a superbly situated conference site and took care af many lacal arrangements. Both far the preparation of the conference and the handling af some manuscripts the suppart af the Centre d 'Etudes de Saclay was essential. The editing of the proceedings volume would not have been passible without the dedicated efforts of Dr. G. -1. Ingald, who tailared a 1\.

• Coulomb
• electrons
• nanostructure
• semiconductor
• tunneling

• Universität Essen, Essen, Germany

  Hermann Grabert

• Centre d’Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  Michel H. Devoret

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