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The shot noise of spin polarized electrons is shown to be generically dependent upon spin-flip processes. Such a situation represents perhaps the simplest instance where the two-particle character of current fluctuations out of equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lamacraft

We analyze current fluctuations in mesoscopic coherent conductors in the presence of electron-electron interactions. In a wide range of parameters we obtain explicit universal dependencies of the current noise on temperature, voltage and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Galaktionov , D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

We study a two-level quantum dot embedded in a phonon bath and irradiated by a time-dependent ac field and develope a method that allows us to extract simultaneously the full counting statistics of the electronic tunneling and relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael Sánchez , Gloria Platero , Tobias Brandes

Even though measurement results obtained in the real world are generally both noisy and continuous, quantum measurement theory tends to emphasize the ideal limit of perfect precision and quantized measurement results. In this article, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Holger F. Hofmann

We use the non-equilibrium bosonization technique to investigate effects of the Coulomb interaction on quantum Hall edge states at filing factor nu=2, partitioned by a quantum point contact (QPC). We find, that due to the integrability of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We consider interaction effects in quantum point contacts on the first quantization plateau, taking into account all non momentum-conserving processes. We compute low-temperature linear and non-linear conductance, shot noise, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 Anders Mathias Lunde , Alessandro De Martino , Reinhold Egger , Karsten Flensberg

The detection of the quantum dot charge state using a quantum point contact charge detector has opened a new exciting route for the investigation of quantum dot devices in recent years. In particular, time-resolved charge detection allowed…

We investigate shot noise at {\it finite temperatures} induced by the quasi-particle tunneling between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) edge states. The resulting Fano factor has the peak structure at a certain bias voltage. Such a structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 E. Iyoda , T. Fujii

The shot noise of current through a metallic double quantum dot structure exhibiting negative differential conductance is studied. We can exactly solve the master equation and derive an analytical expression of the spectral density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Lien Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

We derive the symmetrized current-noise spectrum of a quantum dot, which is weakly tunnel-coupled to an electron reservoir and driven by a slow time-dependent gate voltage. This setup can be operated as an on-demand emitter of single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Niklas Dittmann , Janine Splettstoesser

We present the most complete scattering theory for noise in noninteracting case. The exact formula for spectral density of current fluctuations at finite frequency is presented in terms of scattering matrix for a coherent quantum conductor.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. B. Lesovik

Non-equilibrium excess noise of a short quasi one-dimensional constriction between two superconductors is considered. A general expression for the current-current correlation function valid for arbitrary temperatures and bias voltages is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. P. Hessling , V. S. Shumeiko , Yu. M. Galperin , G. Wendin

Motivated by activities of several experimental groups we investigate electron transport through two coherent, strongly coupled quantum dots ("double quantum dots"), taking into account both intra- and inter-dot Coulomb interactions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jasmin Aghassi , Axel Thielmann , Matthias H. Hettler , Gerd Schön

We propose a theoretical model for the low-frequency noise observed in a quantum point contact (QPC) electrostatically defined in the 2D electron gas at a GaAs-AlGaAs interface. In such contacts electron scattering by soft impurity- or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. P. Hessling , Yu. Galperin , M. Jonson , R. I. Shekhter , A. M. Zagoskin

The shot noise suppression in a sample containing a layer of self-assembled InAs quantum dots has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. The observation of a non-monotonic dependence of the Fano factor on the bias voltage in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Kiesslich , A. Wacker , E. Schoell , A. Nauen , F. Hohls , R. J. Haug

We consider the dephasing of an one-electron state in a quantum dot due to charge fluctuations in a biased quantum point contact coupled to the dot capacitively. The contribution to the dephasing rate due to the bias depends on temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yehoshua Levinson

The fractional charge of quasiparticles is a fundamental feature of quantum Hall effect (QHE) States. The charge has long been measured via shot-noise at moderate temperatures ($T$>30mK), with the Fano factor $F=e^*/e$ revealing the charge…

Shot noise, originating from the discrete nature of electric charge, is generated by scattering processes. Shot-noise measurements have revealed microscopic charge dynamics in various quantum transport phenomena. In particular, beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Kensuke Kobayashi , Masayuki Hashisaka

The Fano-Kondo effect in zero-bias conductance is investigated based on a theoretical model for the T-shaped quantum dot. The conductance as a function of the gate voltage is generally characterized by a Fano asymmetric parameter q. With…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Isao Maruyama , Naokazu Shibata , Kazuo Ueda

We implement a quantum approach which includes long range Coulomb interaction and investigate current voltage characteristics and shot noise in double barrier resonant diodes. Theory applies to the region of low applied voltages up to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Ya. Aleshkin , L. Reggiani , N. V. Alkeev , V. E. Lyubchenko , C. N. Ironside , J. M. L. Figueiredo , C. R. Stanley