Out-of-Equilibrium Admittance of Single Electron Box Under Strong Coulomb Blockade
Ya. I. Rodionov, I. S. Burmistrov
L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia
Abstract
We study admittance and energy dissipation in an
out-of-equlibrium single electron box. The system consists of a
small metallic island coupled to a massive reservoir via single
tunneling junction. The potential of electrons in the island is
controlled by an additional gate electrode. The energy dissipation
is caused by an AC gate voltage. The case of a strong Coulomb
blockade is considered. We focus on the regime when electron
coherence can be neglected but quantum fluctuations of charge are
strong due to Coulomb interaction. We obtain the admittance under
the specified conditions. It turns out that the energy dissipation
rate can be expressed via charge relaxation resistance and
renormalized gate capacitance even out of equilibrium. We suggest
the admittance as a tool for a measurement of the bosonic
distribution corresponding collective excitations in the system.