Electron-Phonon Interaction in Electronic Tunneling: From Sequential Rate Equations to a Coherent Description

L. E. F. FOA TORRES; H. M. PASTAWSKI; S. S. MAKLER

BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Año: 2002 vol. 32 p. 300 - 302

0103-9733

Electron-Phonon Interaction in Electronic Tunneling: From Sequential Rate Equations to a Coherent Description L.E.F.F. Torres, H.M. Pastawski, and S.S. Makler Brazilian Journal of Physics 32, (2A) 300-302, (2002) Abstract: We discuss the main theoretical approaches for the phonon-assisted tunneling in double barrier resonant tunneling devices and introduce a quantum coherent treatment based on the mapping of the many-body problem into a higher dimensional one-body system. Conditions for a maximized phonon-emission are established.