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Full Current Statistics of Incoherent "Cold Electrons"

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We evaluate the full current statistics (FCS) in the low dimensional (1D and 2D) diffusive conductors in the incoherent regime, eVETh=D/L2eV\gg E_{\rm Th}=D/L^2, EThE_{\rm Th} being the Thouless energy. It is shown that Coulomb interaction substantially enhances the probability of big current fluctuations for short conductors with ETh1/τEE_{\rm Th}\gg1/\tau_E, τE\tau_E being the energy relaxation time, leading to the exponential tails in the current distribution. The current fluctuations are most strong for low temperatures, provided ETh[(eV)2/Dν12]1/3E_{\rm Th}\sim [(eV)^2/D\nu_1^2\bigr]^{1/3} for 1D and ETh(eV/g)lngE_{\rm Th}\sim (eV/g)\ln g for 2D, where gg is a dimensionless conductance and ν1\nu_1 is a 1D density of states. The FCS in the "hot electron" regime is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406483,
  title  = {Full Current Statistics of Incoherent "Cold Electrons"},
  author = {Dmitry A. Bagrets},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406483},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 table, 2 figures

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