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Noise of a single-electron emitter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2013-07-19 v1

Abstract

I analyze the correlation function of currents generated by the periodically driven quantum capacitor emitting single electrons and holes into the chiral waveguide. I compare adiabatic and non-adiabatic, transient working regimes of a single-electron emitter and find the striking difference between the correlation functions in two regimes. Quite generally for the system driven with frequency Ω\Omega the correlation function depends on two frequencies, ω\omega and Ωω\ell \Omega - \omega, where \ell is an integer. For the emitter driven non-adiabatically the correlation functions for different \ell are similar and almost symmetric in ω\omega. While in the case of adiabatic drive the correlation functions for 0\ell \ne 0 are highly asymmetric in ω\omega and exceed significantly the one corresponding to =0\ell = 0. Under optimal operating conditions the correlation function for odd \ell is zero.

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@article{arxiv.1304.7357,
  title  = {Noise of a single-electron emitter},
  author = {Michael Moskalets},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7357},
  year   = {2013}
}

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21 pages, 7 figures