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We investigate the shot noise of an impurity-free graphene flake as a function of the chemical potential. For large width to length ratios, this noise has been predicted and observed to exhibit universal characteristics at the Dirac point.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. D. Wiener , M. Kindermann

Ideal Sharvin contact in a multimode regime shows the conductance $G\approx{}G_{\rm Sharvin}=g_0k_F{}W/\pi$ (with $g_0$ the conductance quantum, $k_F$ the Fermi momentum, and $W$ the contact width) accompanied by strongly suppressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Adam Rycerz , Piotr Witkowski

We report first-principles calculations of shot noise properties of parallel carbon wires in the regime in which the interwire distance is much smaller than the inelastic mean free path. We find that, with increasing interwire distance, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Johan Lagerqvist , Yu-Chang Chen , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We study time-dependent electron transport and quantum noise in a ballistic graphene field effect transistor driven by an ac gate potential. The non-linear response to the ac signal is computed through Floquet theory for scattering states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Yevgeniy Korniyenko , Oleksii Shevtsov , Tomas Lofwander

Random fluctuations of the shot-noise power in disordered graphene nanoribbons are studied. In particular, we calculate the distribution of the shot noise of nanoribbons with zigzag and armchair edge terminations. We show that the shot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Victor A. Gopar

We study the zero frequency noise in an interacting quantum wire connected to leads, in the presence of an impurity. In the absence of quasiparticle decoherence the zero-frequency noise is that of a non-interacting wire. However, if the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Cristina Bena

We report shot noise spectroscopy on a semiconductor quantum dot in a cotunneling regime. The DC conductance measurements show clear signatures of both elastic and inelastic cotunneling transport inside a Coulomb diamond. We observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Yuma Okazaki , Satoshi Sasaki , Koji Muraki

We study transport properties of graphene nanostructures consisted of alternating slabs of gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of piecewise constant external potential equal to zero in the gapless regions. The transmission through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. S. Azarova , G. M. Maksimova

We discuss graphene nanoribbon-based charge sensors and focus on their functionality in the presence of external magnetic fields and high frequency pulses applied to a nearby gate electrode. The charge detectors work well with in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 C. Neumann , C. Volk , S. Engels , C. Stampfer

We study the transport properties of graphene nanoribbons of standardized 30 nm width and varying lengths. We find that the extent of the gap observed in transport as a function of Fermi energy in these ribbons (the "transport gap") does…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 Patrick Gallagher , Kathryn Todd , David Goldhaber-Gordon

We have developed a theoretical formalism to investigate the contribution of fluctuation of Coulomb interaction to the shot noise based on Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function method. We have applied our theory to study the behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Duo Li , Lei Zhang , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang

We study differential shot noise in mesoscopic diffusive normal-superconducting (NS) heterostructures at finite voltages where nonlinear effects due to the superconducting proximity effect arise. A numerical scattering-matrix approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Markku P. V. Stenberg , Tero T. Heikkilä

We have studied electronic conductivity and shot noise of bilayer graphene (BLG) sheets at high bias voltages and low bath temperature $T_0=4.2$ K. As a function of bias, we find initially an increase of the differential conductivity, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-07 A. Fay , R. Danneau , J. K. Viljas , F. Wu , M. Y. Tomi , J. Wengler , M. Wiesner , P. J. Hakonen

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 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 generalize the scattering theory of quantum shot noise to include the full spin-density matrix of electrons injected from a spin-filtering or ferromagnetic electrode into a quantum-coherent nanostructure governed by various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralitsa L. Dragomirova , Branislav K. Nikolic

We report a precise experimental study on the shot noise of a quantum point contact (QPC) fabricated in a GaAs/AlGaAs based high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). The combination of unprecedented cleanliness and very high…

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 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

We show that shot noise in a resonant tunneling diode biased in the negative differential resistance regions of the I-V characteristic is enhanced with respect to ``full'' shot noise. We provide experimental results showing a Fano factor up…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Iannaccone , G. Lombardi , M. Macucci , B. Pellegrini