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Shot Noise Spectrum of Open Dissipative Quantum Two-level Systems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We study the current noise spectrum of qubits under transport conditions in a dissipative bosonic environment. We combine (non-)Markovian master equations with correlation functions in Laplace-space to derive a noise formula for both weak and strong coupling to the bath. The coherence-induced reduction of noise is diminished by weak dissipation and/or a large level separation (bias). For weak dissipation, we demonstrate that the dephasing and relaxation rates of the two-level system can be extracted from noise. In the strong dissipation regime, the localisation-delocalisation transition becomes visible in the low-frequency noise.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310578,
  title  = {Shot Noise Spectrum of Open Dissipative Quantum Two-level Systems},
  author = {R. Aguado and T. Brandes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310578},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, references added. To appear in PRL