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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 report on unique electronic properties in Fe-SiO2 nanocomposite thin films in the vicinity of the percolation threshold. The electronic transport is dominated by quantum corrections to the metallic conduction of the Infinite Cluster…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Raquet , M. Goiran , N. Negre , J. Leotin B. Aronzon , V. Rylkov , E. Meilikhov

The nature of charge carriers in strange metals has become a topic of intense current investigation. Recent shot noise measurements in the quantum critical heavy fermion metal YbRh$_2$Si$_2$ revealed a suppression of the Fano factor that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-21 Yiming Wang , Shouvik Sur , Chandan Setty , Douglas Natelson , Qimiao Si

We investigate fluctuations of electric and heat currents, along with their cross-correlations, in a two-channel charge Kondo circuit driven by either a voltage bias or a temperature gradient applied across the weak link. The ratios of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 T. K. T. Nguyen , J. Rech , T. Martin , M. N. Kiselev

We demonstrate that current-current correlations (in particular the shot noise), can be used to study the intrinsic superconductivity in a slightly doped Weyl semi-metal. The systems studied is an N-WS tunneling junction where the left…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-21 A. Golub

Current noise provides useful information on correlations important for transport properties of mesoscopic systems. Of particular interest, both experimentally and theoretically, are heterostructures of normal metals and superconductors. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 W. Belzig , J. Boerlin , C. Bruder , Yu. V. Nazarov

Voltage-gated ion channels are essential for propagating signals in neurons. Each channel senses the local membrane potential created by nearby ions. Fluctuations in these ions introduce two fundamental noise sources: (i) shot noise, from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jose M. Betancourt , Benjamin B. Machta

Transport properties of graphene - superconductor junction has been studied extensively to understand the interplay of the relativistic Dirac quasiparticles and superconductivity. Though shot noise measurements in graphene has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Manas Ranjan Sahu , Arup Kumar Paul , Abhiram Soori , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Subroto Mukerjee , Anindya Das

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 present theoretical study of shot noise in single wall metallic carbon nanotubes weakly coupled to either nonmagnetic or ferromagnetic leads. Using the real-time diagrammatic technique, we calculate the current, Fano factor and tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Weymann , J. Barnas , S. Krompiewski

The exact structure of edge modes in `hole conjugate' fractional quantum Hall states remains an unsolved issue despite significant experimental and theoretical efforts devoted to their understanding. Recently, there has been a surge of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-24 Aveek Bid , Nissim Ofek , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

Fluctuations affect nanoporous transport in complex and intricate ways, making optimization of signal-to-noise in artificial designs challenging. Here we focus on the simplest nanopore system, where non-interacting particles diffuse through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-19 Sophie Marbach

Generation and control of non-classical electromagnetic fields is of crucial importance for quantum information physics. While usual methods for the production of such fields rely on a non-linearity (of a crystal, a Josephson junction,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Jean-Charles Forgues , Christian Lupien , Bertrand Reulet

We show experimentally that even when no bias voltage is applied to a quantum conductor, the electronic quantum partition noise can be investigated using GHz radiofrequency irradiation of a reservoir. Using a Quantum Point Contact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. -H. Reydellet , P. Roche , D. C. Glattli , B. Etienne , Y. Jin

We theoretically calculate the fundamental noise that is present in gaseous (dilute fluid) flow in channels in the classical and degenerate quantum regime, where the Fermi-Dirac and Bose- Einstein distribution must be considered. Results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 J. Dastoor , D. M. Willerton , W. Reisner , G. Gervais

1/f noise in current biased La0.82Ca0.18MnO3 crystals has been investigated. The temperature dependence of the noise follows the resistivity changes with temperature suggesting that resistivity fluctuations constitute a fixed fraction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. D. Wu , B. Dolgin , G. Jung , V. Markovich , Y. Yuzhelevski , M. Belogolovskii , Ya. M. Mukovskii

Nanostructuring on length scales corresponding to phonon mean free paths provides control over heat flow in semiconductors and makes it possible to engineer their thermal properties. However, the influence of boundaries limits the validity…

Cross-correlated noise measurements are performed in etched Al${}_\text{x}$Ga${}_\text{1-x}$As/GaAs based quantum rings in equilibrium at bath temperature of $T_\text{bath}=4.2\text{ K}$. The measured white noise exceeds the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Christian Riha , Sven S. Buchholz , Olivio Chiatti , Andreas D. Wieck , Dirk Reuter , Saskia F. Fischer

We studied electronic relaxation in long diffusive superconductor / normal metal / superconductor (S/N/S) junctions by means of current noise and transport measurements down to very low temperature (100mK). Samples with normal metal lengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Hoffmann , F. Lefloch , M. Sanquer

We propose an electromechanical transducer based on a resonant-tunneling configuration that, with respect to the standard tunneling transducers, allows larger tunneling currents while using the same bias voltage. The increased current leads…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Roberto Onofrio , Carlo Presilla