Inelastic scattering and shot noise in diffusive mesoscopic conductors
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
A short summary of the drift-diffusion-Langevin formalism for calculating finite-frequency shot noise in diffusive conductors is presented. Two new results are included in this presentation. First, we arrive at a simple (but accurate) phenomenological expression for the semiclassical distribution function of electrons in the presence of electron-electron scattering. Second, it is shown that in thin samples, low-frequency shot noise may be large even if the sample length is much larger than the electron-phonon relaxation length.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9910256,
title = {Inelastic scattering and shot noise in diffusive mesoscopic conductors},
author = {Y. Naveh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9910256},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, to appear in "XVIII Rencontres de Moriond: Quantum Physics at Mesoscopic Scale", Edited by D. C. Glattli and M. Sanquer (Edition Frontiers, France)