Decoherence and Full Counting Statistics in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-08-31 v1
Abstract
We investigate the Full Counting Statistics of an electrical Mach-Zehnder interferometer penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm flux, and in the presence of a classical fluctuating potential. Of interest is the suppression of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the distribution function of the transmitted charge. For a Gaussian fluctuating field we calculate the first three cumulants. The fluctuating potential causes a modulation of the conductance leading in the third cumulant to a term cubic in voltage and to a contribution correlating modulation of current and noise. In the high voltage regime we present an approximation of the generating function.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502400,
title = {Decoherence and Full Counting Statistics in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer},
author = {Heidi Forster and Sebastian Pilgram and Markus Buttiker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502400},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures