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Phys. Rev. B 60, 10569–10572 (1999)

Distribution of time constants for tunneling through a one-dimensional disordered chain

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C. J. Bolton-Heaton, C. J. Lambert, and Vladimir I. Fal’ko
Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, United Kingdom

V. Prigodin and A. J. Epstein
Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1106

Received 23 February 1999; published in the issue dated 15 October 1999

The dynamics of electronic tunneling through a disordered one-dimensional chain of finite length is considered. We calculate distributions of the transmission coefficient T, Wigner delay time τW, and the transport time τt=TτW. The central bodies of these distributions have a power-law form, which can be understood in terms of the resonant tunneling through localized states.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10569
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10569
PACS:
05.45.-a, 03.65.Nk, 24.30.-v