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We investigate the time-dependent fluctuations of the electric current injected from a reservoir with a non-equilibrium spin accumulation into a mesoscopic conductor. We show how the current noise power directly reflects the magnitude of…

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We present measurements of the time-dependent fluctuations in electrical current in a voltage-biased tunnel junction. We were able to simultaneously extract the first three moments of the tunnel current counting statistics. Detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 Yu. Bomze , G. Gershon , D. Shovkun , L. S. Levitov , M. Reznikov

The distribution of nearest-neighbour spacings of Coulomb blockade oscillation peaks in normal conducting aluminum single electron transistors is found to be non-Gaussian. A pronounced tail to reduced spacings is observed, which we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Furlan , T. Heinzel , B. Jeanneret , S. V. Lotkhov , K. Ensslin

Using the transfer matrix method, we numerically investigate the structure of spatial coherences and their fluctuations in the 3d Anderson model in the metallic phase when driven out-of-equilibrium by external leads at zero temperature and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Ludwig Hruza , Tony Jin

We investigate fluctuations in the average speed or current of a self-interacting diffusion (SID) on a ring, mimicking the non-Markovian behaviour of an agent influenced by its own path. We derive the SID's phase diagram, showing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-16 Francesco Coghi

An arrangement of mesoscopic experiments is considered when the conductance of a mesoscopic normal metal sample is governed not only by the magnetic flux threading the sample but by the supercurrent inside the superconductor coupled to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Zagoskin , A. Kadigrobov , R. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We developed a microscopic approach to calculate the sample-to-sample fluctuations of transmission distribution in disordered conductors. This bridges between Green's function and random matrix theories of quantum transport. The results…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yuli V. Nazarov

Spectral statistics and correlations are the usual way to study the presence or absence of quantum chaos in quantum systems. We present our investigation on the study of the fluctuation average and variance of certain correlation functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Tanay Pathak

We study mesoscopic fluctuations and weak localization correction to the supercurrent in Josephson junctions with coherent diffusive electron dynamics in the normal part. Two kinds of junctions are considered: a chaotic dot coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-10 M. Houzet , M. A. Skvortsov

Experiments involving the two-dimensional passive diffusion of colloidal boomerangs tracked off their centre of mobility have shown striking non-Gaussian tails in their probability distribution function [Chakrabarty et al., Soft Matter 12,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-18 Lyndon Koens , Maciej Lisicki , Eric Lauga

We study the dependence on configuration in momentum space of the primordial 3-point function of density perturbations in several different scenarios: standard slow-roll inflation, curvaton and variable decay models, ghost inflation, models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Daniel Babich , Paolo Creminelli , Matias Zaldarriaga

We calculate the average persistent current in a mesoscopic metal ring threaded by a magnetic flux in the diffusive regime. It is shown that the classical electromagnetic energy leads to a {\it{universal}} average current of the order of $…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-23 Peter Kopietz

We present a class of models in which the primordial metric fluctuations do not necessarily obey Gaussian statistics. These models are realizations of mechanisms in which non-Gaussianity is first generated by a light scalar field and then…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francis Bernardeau , Tristan Brunier , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The quantum XXZ spin-1/2 chain features non-Gaussian spin current fluctuations in the regime of easy-axis anisotropy. Using ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory, we derive the exact probability distribution of typical spin-current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-27 Takato Yoshimura , Žiga Krajnik , Alvise Bastianello , Enej Ilievski

An approach to experimentally exploring electronic correlation functions in mesoscopic regimes is proposed. The idea is to monitor the mesoscopic fluctuations of a tunneling current flowing between the two layers of a semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julia S. Meyer , Alexander Altland , Martin Janssen

We consider fluctuations of the dissipated energy in nonlinear driven diffusive systems subject to bulk dissipation and boundary driving. With this aim, we extend the recently-introduced macroscopic fluctuation theory to nonlinear driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 P. I. Hurtado , A. Lasanta , A. Prados

We study the scalar-tensor-tensor non-Gaussian signal in an inflationary model comprising also an axion coupled with SU(2) gauge fields. In this set-up, metric fluctuations are sourced by the gauge fields already at the linear level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Robert J. Hardwick , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Kazuya Koyama , David Wands

The physics of quasi one-dimensional Peierls systems is dominated by order parameter fluctuations. We present an algorithm which allows for the first time to exactly calculate physical properties of the electrons gas coupled to classical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Hartmut Monien

The zero-temperature transverse Ising chain carrying an energy flux j_E is studied with the aim of determining the nonequilibrium distribution functions, P(M_z) and P(M_x), of its transverse and longitudinal magnetizations, respectively. An…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Eisler , Z. Racz , F. van Wijland

We study long-range correlations of equilibrium current densities in a two-dimensional mesoscopic system with the time reversal invariance broken by a random or homogeneous magnetic field. Our result is universal, i.e. it does not depend on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , P. Woelfle