Lifetime of metastable states in resonant tunneling structures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Tretiakov, O A ^a   Gramespacher, T ^a   Matveev, K A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR STABILITY;

EID: 0037441298     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.073303     Document Type: Article

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15. More precisely, in the vicinity of the threshold (Formula presented) one can show that this term is negligible at (Formula presented)
16. The saddle point of a functional essentially identical to (Formula presented) Eqs. (14), (5), has been studied in Ref. 14,. The numerical coefficient obtained in Ref. 14, coincides with our result with 1% accuracy.