Full Counting Statistics of Andreev Tunneling
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2014-01-27 v2 Superconductivity
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We employ a single-charge counting technique to measure the full counting statistics (FCS) of Andreev events in which Cooper pairs are either produced from electrons that are reflected as holes at a superconductor/normal-metal interface or annihilated in the reverse process. The FCS consists of quiet periods with no Andreev processes, interrupted by the tunneling of a single electron that triggers an avalanche of Andreev events giving rise to strongly super-Poissonian distributions.
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@article{arxiv.1307.4176,
title = {Full Counting Statistics of Andreev Tunneling},
author = {V. F. Maisi and D. Kambly and C. Flindt and J. P. Pekola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4176},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, final version as published in Phys. Rev. Lett