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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

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

Shot noise measurements in quantum point contacts are a powerful tool to investigate charge transport in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regime, in particular to unveil the charge, quantum statistics and tunneling dynamics of edge…

We have experimentally studied shot noise of chaotic cavities defined by two quantum point contacts in series. The cavity noise is determined as 1/4*2e|I| in agreement with theory and can be well distinguished from other contributions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Oberholzer , E. V. Sukhorukov , C. Strunk , C. Schonenberger , T. Heinzel , K. Ensslin , M. Holland

Shot noise encodes additional information not directly inferable from simple electronic transport measurements. Previous measurements in atomic-scale metal junctions at cryogenic temperatures have shown suppression of the shot noise at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 P. J. Wheeler , J. N. Russom , K. Evans , N. S. King , D. Natelson

We report on direct measurements of the electronic shot noise of a quantum point contact at frequencies nu in the range 4-8 GHz. The very small energy scale used ensures energy independent transmissions of the few transmitted electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-22 Eva Zakka-Bajjani , Julien Segala , Fabien Portier , Patrice Roche , Christian Glattli , Antonella Cavanna , Yong Jin

We measure the current and shot noise in a quantum dot (QD) in the Kondo regime to address the non-equilibrium properties of the Kondo effect. By systematically tuning the temperature and gate voltages to define the level positions in the…

A gate-defined quantum dot in an InAs nanowire is fabricated on top of a quantum point contact realized in a two-dimensional electron gas. The strong coupling between these two quantum devices is used to perform time-averaged as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Theodore Choi , Thomas Ihn , Silke Schön , Klaus Ensslin

We study the conductance and current noise of a superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) single channel Quantum Point Contact (QPC) as a function of the QPC bias voltage, using a scattering approach. We show that the Spin-Dependence of Interfacial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Audrey Cottet , Wolfgang Belzig

We report shot noise measurements for a quantum dot formed in an InAs nanowire suspended between superconducting electrodes. We find a clear alternation for the shot noise value in the Coulomb blockade regime between even and odd electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Keiko Takase , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Yamato Ashikawa , Guoqiang Zhang , Kouta Tateno , Yuma Okazaki , Satoshi Sasaki

The shot noise of a one-dimensional wire interrupted by two barriers shows interesting features related to the interplay between Coulomb blockade effects, Luttinger correlations and discrete excitations. At small bias the Fano factor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Braggio , R. Fazio , M. Sassetti

We investigate the effect of interactions on shot noise in $\nu=2$ quantum Hall edges, where a repulsive coupling between co-propagating edge modes is expected to give rise to charge fractionalization. Using the method of non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Mirco Milletarì , Bernd Rosenow

Shot noise of series quantum point contacts forming a sequence of cavities in a two dimensional electron gas are studied theoretically and experimentally. Noise in such a structure originates from local scattering at the point contacts as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Oberholzer , E. V. Sukhorukov , C. Strunk , C. Schoenenberger

We present an experimental procedure for obtaining the conduction channels of low-dimensional conductors based on shot noise measurements. The transmission coefficient for each channel is determined numerically from the measured conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Ran Vardimon , Marina Klionsky , Oren Tal

We compute the shot noise in ballistic and disordered Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions by a wave function-matching method. For tunnel barriers with no more than 5 atomic layers we find a suppression of the Fano factor as a function of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Kai Liu , Ke Xia , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We study a shot noise of a wide channel gated high-frequency transistor at temperature of 4.2K near pinch-off. In this regime, a transition from the metallic to the insulating state is expected to occur, accompanied by the increase of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. S. Khrapai , D. V. Shovkun

We investigate the effect of electron-phonon inelastic scattering on shot noise in nanoscale junctions in the regime of quasi-ballistic transport. We predict that when the local temperature of the junction is larger than its lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yu-Chang Chen , Massimiliano Di Ventra

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…

We report an investigation of quantum Hall induced currents by simultaneous measurements of their magnetic moment and their effect on the conductance of a quantum point contact (QPC). Features in the magnetic moment and QPC resistance are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. J. Smith , C. D. H. Williams , A. Usher , A. S. Sachrajda , A. Kam , Z. R. Wasilewski

We investigate the noise properties of a GaAs/AlGaAs resonant tunneling structure at bias voltages where the current characteristic is determined by single electron tunneling. We discuss the suppression of the shot noise in the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Nauen , F. Hohls , J. Konemann , R. J. Haug