Comments on Electrode Self-Energy Effects in Tunnel Junctions

Abstract

Electrode self-energy effects in a tunnel junction have been calculated for a simple model without recourse to the transfer-Hamiltonian formalism. The results are in agreement with earlier suggestions that the electron, in the presence of many-body effects in an electrode, tunnels with the total energy $\epsilon$ and not the bare energy ${\xi }_k=\frac{{\hslash }^2{k}^2}{2m^{*}}-{\epsilon }_F$.