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During the past six years a variety of experiments have been performed which reveal a rapidly varying tunnel conductance on an energy scale of from 5 to 100 meV. All of these variations occur at too small a bias (V ≲ 100 mV) or are too sharp to be attributed to variations in the junction potential with bias. In this chapter I shall outline a general theory in which these rapid variations in the differential tunnel conductance are attributed either to the excitation of internal degrees of freedom of the barrier or to self-energy effects in the electrodes.
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Duke, C.B. (1969). A Unified Theory of Zero-Bias Anomalies and Energy-Loss Mechanisms in the Barrier. In: Burstein, E., Lundqvist, S. (eds) Tunneling Phenomena in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1752-4_28
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