Universality and quantization of the power-to-heat ratio in nanogranular systems

N. M. Chtchelkatchev, A. Glatz, I. S. Beloborodov
2013 Physical Review B  
We study heating and dissipation effects in granular nanosystems in the regime of weak coupling between the grains. We focus on the cotunneling regime and solve the heat-dissipation problem in an array of grains exactly. We show that the power to heat ratio has a universal quantized value, which is geometrically protected: it depends only on the number of grains.
doi:10.1103/physrevb.88.125130 fatcat:6qeafzcd5jbsjm3xv2ed3ikbmq