Measurement of the energy dependence of phase relaxation by single electron tunneling

Abstract

Single electron tunneling through a single impurity level is used to probe the fluctuations of the local density of states in the emitter. The energy dependence of quasi-particle relaxation in the emitter can be extracted from the damping of the fluctuations of the local density of states (LDOS). At larger magnetic fields Zeeman splitting is observed.

2 pages, 4 figures; 25th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Osaka, Japan, September 17-22, 2000