4 Coulomb blockade

Additional reading
4.7 Problems 91
• Single charge tunneling, Vol. 294 of NATO ASI Series B, H.GrabertandM.H.
Devoret, eds., (Plenum, 1992).
• G. Schön, in Quantum dissipation and transport (Wiley-VCH, 1998), Chap. 3 of
Ref. [1].
• H. Bruus and K. Flensberg, ”Many-body quantum theory in condensed matter
physics”, chapter 10.
• D.K. Ferry and S.M. Goodnick, ”Transport in nanostructures”, sect. 4.2.
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