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Projective versus weak measurement of charge in a mesoscopic conductor

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

We study the charge dynamics of a quantum dot as measured by a nearby quantum point contact probing the dot via individual single-particle wave packets. We contrast the two limiting cases of weak and strong system--detector coupling exerting vanishing and strong back-action on the system and analyze the resulting differences in the charge-charge correlator. Extending the study to multiple projective measurements modelling a continuous strong measurement, we identify a transition from a charge dynamics dominated by the system's properties to a universal dynamics governed by the measurement.

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@article{arxiv.1406.4762,
  title  = {Projective versus weak measurement of charge in a mesoscopic conductor},
  author = {David Oehri and Andrei V. Lebedev and Gordey B. Lesovik and Gianni Blatter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4762},
  year   = {2015}
}