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The quantum mechanical description of tunneling through a planar barrier and the method of tunneling (or transfer) Hamiltonian for weak coupling to the electrodes are given in this chapter. The sequential tunneling is introduces and the master equation for interacting systems is presented.
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To do this one should multiply the integrand on \(1=\int \delta (E-E_q)dE\).
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Ryndyk, D.A. (2016). Tunneling. In: Theory of Quantum Transport at Nanoscale. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24088-6_4
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