COTUNNELING AT RESONANCE FOR THE SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTOR

We study electron transport through a small metallic island in the perturbative regime. Using a diagrammatic real-time technique, we calculate the occupation of the island as well as the conductance through the transistor to fourth order in the tunneling matrix elements, a process referred to as cotunneling. Our formulation does not require the introduction of a cutoff. At resonance we find significant deviations from previous theories and quantitative agreement with recent experiments.