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Full Counting Statistics of Spin Currents

Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We discuss how to detect fluctuating spin currents and derive full counting statistics of electron spin transfers. It is interesting to consider several detectors in series that simultaneously monitor different components of the spins transferred. We have found that in general the statistics of the measurement outcomes cannot be explained with the projection postulate and essentially depends on the quantum dynamics of the detectors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312045,
  title  = {Full Counting Statistics of Spin Currents},
  author = {Antonio Di Lorenzo and Yuli V. Nazarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312045},
  year   = {2009}
}

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twocolumns, 4 pages, 2 figures