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We have studied the origin of switching (telegraph) noise at low temperature in lateral quantum structures defined electrostatically in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures by surface gates. The noise was measured by monitoring the conductance…

Two tunnel-coupled few-electron quantum dots were fabricated in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well. The absolute number of electrons in each dot could be determined from finite bias Coulomb blockade measurements and gate voltage scans of the dots,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. H. Chan , P. Fallahi , A. Vidan , R. M. Westervelt , M. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

In small systems where relevant energies are comparable to thermal agitation, fluctuations are of the order of average values. In systems in thermodynamical equilibrium, the variance of these fluctuations can be related to the dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Garnier , Ciliberto Sergio

Based on the scattering matrix theory and non-equilibrium green function method, we have investigated the fluctuations of charge and spin current of the systems which consists of a quantum dot (QD) with a resonant level coupled to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Zahra Sartipi , Javad Vahedi

We have realized a hybrid solid-state quantum device in which a single-electron semiconductor double quantum dot is dipole coupled to a superconducting microwave frequency transmission line resonator. The dipolar interaction between the two…

We report an experimental observation of the backaction of a Single Electron Transistor (SET) measuring the Coulomb staircase of a single electron box. As current flows through the SET, the charge state of the SET island fluctuates. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Turek , K. W. Lehnert , A. Clerk , D. Gunnarsson , K. Bladh , P. Delsing , R. J. Schoelkopf

We investigate the full counting statistics of charge transport in $U(1)$-symmetric random unitary circuits. We consider an initial mixed state prepared with a chemical potential imbalance between the left and right halves of the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Ewan McCulloch , Jacopo De Nardis , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

A Fluctuation Theorem (FT), both Classical and Quantum, describes the large-deviations in the approach to equilibrium of an isolated quasi-integrable system. Two characteristics make it unusual: (i) it concerns the internal dynamics of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Tomer Goldfriend , Jorge Kurchan

We calculate a current and its fluctuation in a two-state stochastic system under a periodic perturbation. The system could be interpreted as a channel on a cell surface or a single Michaelis-Menten catalyzing enzyme. It has been shown that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-18 Jun Ohkubo

We report on noise measurements in a quantum dot in the presence of Kondo correlations. Close to the unitary limit, with the conductance reaching 1.8e2/h, we observed an average backscattered charge of e*~5e/3, while weakly biasing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Zarchin , M. Zaffalon , M. Heiblum , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

We study noise spectra of currents through a tunnel junction in weak tunneling limit. We introduce effective capacitance to take into account the interaction effect and explicitly incorporate the electromagnetic environment of the junction…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 Hyunwoo Lee , L. S. Levitov

The electrical and heat currents flowing through a quantum dot are calculated in the presence of a time-modulated gate voltage with the help of the out-of-equilibrium Green function technique. From the first harmonics of the currents, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Adeline Crépieux

We explore statistical fluctuations over the ensemble of quantum trajectories in a model of two-dimensional free fermions subject to projective monitoring of local charge across the measurement-induced phase transition. Our observables are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Igor Poboiko , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

The conductance fluctuations of a metallic wire which is interrupted by a small tunnel junction has been explored experimentally. In this system, the bias voltage V, which drops almost completely inside the tunnel barrier, is used to probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexander van Oudenaarden , M. H. Devoret , E. H. Visscher , Yu. V. Nazarov , J. E. Mooij

We study electronic transport through a strongly interacting quantum dot by using the finite temperature extension of Wilson's numerical renormalization group (NRG) method. This allows the linear conductance to be calculated at all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Costi

We study the Coulomb blockade in a chaotic quantum dot connected to a lead by a single channel at nearly perfect transmission. We take into account quantum fluctuations of the dot charge and a finite level spacing for electron states within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. L. Aleiner , L. I. Glazman

In this paper, we present theoretical investigation of the zero-frequency shot noise spectra in electron tunneling through an interacting quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic leads with possibility of spin-flip scattering between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivana Djuric , Bing Dong , H. L. Cui

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed to characterize a few electron quantum dot electrostatically defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The gate geometry allows observations on one and the same electron droplet within a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 A. K. Huettel , K. Eberl , S. Ludwig

We study coherent transport through a double quantum dot. Its two electronic leads induce electronic matter and energy transport and a phonon reservoir contributes further energy exchanges. By treating the system-lead couplings…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-07 Thilo Krause , Tobias Brandes , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller

We investigate current fluctuations in a three-terminal quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime. In the voltage-bias configuration chosen here, the circuit is operated like a beam splitter, i.e. one lead is used as an input and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Cottet , W. Belzig , C. Bruder