Calorimetric tunneling study of heat generation in metal-vacuum-metal tunnel junction

We have proposed novel calorimetric tunneling (CT) experiment allowing exact determination of heat generation (or heat sinking) in individual tunnel junction (TJ) electrodes which opens new possibilities in the field of design and development of experimental techniques for science and technology. Using such experiment we have studied the process of heat generation in normal-metal electrodes of the vacuum-barrier tunnel junction (VBTJ). The results show there exists dependence of the mutual redistribution of the heat on applied bias voltage and the direction of tunnel current, although the total heat generated in tunnel process is equal to Joule heat, as expected. Moreover, presented study indicates generated heat represents the energy of non-equilibrium quasiparticles coming from inelastic electron processes accompanying the process of elastic tunneling.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, LaTe

One-Dimensional Falicov-Kimball Model in the Strong Coupling Limit

We studied the ground state properties of the one-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model in the strong coupling limit for special periodic and aperiodic configurations of ions. The ground state phase diagrams of the model for nearest neighbor and next nearest neighbor hopping are discussed