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Output spectrum of a measuring device at arbitrary voltage and temperature

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v3

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 VV is much larger than the qubit's energy level splitting BB (we put e==1e=\hbar=1)) to the case of arbitrary voltages and temperatures. When VBV \sim B 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 ω=±B\omega=\pm B 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 V<BV < B 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