Output spectrum of a measuring device at arbitrary voltage and temperature
Abstract
We calculate the noise spectrum of the electrical current in a quantum point contact which is used for continuous measurements of a two-level system (qubit). We generalize the previous results obtained for the regime of high transport voltages (when is much larger than the qubit's energy level splitting (we put )) to the case of arbitrary voltages and temperatures. When the background output spectrum is essentially asymmetric in frequency, i.e., it is no longer classical. Yet, the spectrum of the amplified signal, i.e., the two coherent peaks at is still symmetric. In the emission (negative frequency) part of the spectrum the coherent peak can be 8 times higher than the background pedestal. Alternatively, this ratio can be seen in the directly measureable {\it excess} noise. For and T=0 the coherent peaks do not appear at all. We relate these results to the properties of linear amplifiers.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311325,
title = {Output spectrum of a measuring device at arbitrary voltage and temperature},
author = {A. Shnirman and D. Mozyrsky and I. Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311325},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures, the results generalized for arbitrary angle between the magnetic field and the observed component of the spin, minor corrections and typos