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The Few-Body Problem in Nanoelectronics

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Granular Nanoelectronics

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Few electron systems are achieved by constraining electron motion so that one is no longer dealing with macroscopic bulk matter. (Similar remarks clearly apply to holes, which will be discussed specifically in our remarks on excitons). The constraints are effectively potential barriers which facilitate the creation of low-dimensional (d = 2, 1 or 0) systems. The zero-dimensional systems are the archetype of few electron systems but few electron aspects also play an important role in all low-d-systems. However, since d = 3 (bulk matter) and d = 2 (quantum well, semiconductor-insulator interface) systems have been extensively reviewed in the recent literature our emphasis will be on d = 1 (quantum wires) and d = 0 (quantum dots or boxes). We will concentrate on transport and noise properties but, in the case d = 0, we will also review other topics such as magnetic susceptibility, energy levels etc.

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O’Connell, R.F., Hu, G.Y. (1991). The Few-Body Problem in Nanoelectronics. In: Ferry, D.K., Barker, J.R., Jacoboni, C. (eds) Granular Nanoelectronics. NATO ASI Series, vol 251. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3689-9_20

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