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We consider a tunnel junction formed between a fixed electrode and an oscillating one. Accumulation of the charge on the junction capacitor induces a force on the nano-mechanical oscillator. The junction is voltage biased and connected in…

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The spin resolved current shot noise can uniquely probe the interactions in mesoscopic systems: i) in a normal-superconducting junction, the spin current noise is zero, as carried by singlets, and ii) in a single electron transistor (SET)…

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Current-correlations are a very sensitive probe of the fluctuations of small conductors. For non-interacting particles injected from thermal sources there is a simple connection between the sign of correlations and statistics:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Buttiker

Josephson tunnel junctions are essential elements of superconducting quantum circuits. The operability of these circuits presumes a $2\pi$-periodic sinusoidal potential of a tunnel junction, but higher-order corrections to this Josephson…

A very recent article [(1) E. Zakka-Bajjani et al., PRL104, 206802 (2010)] has addressed the problem of how the statistics of electrons crossing a quantum conductor influences that of the photons they emit. It is however not clear that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-23 B. Reulet , J. Gabelli

By scattering theory we show that spin current noise in normal electric conductors in contact with nanoscale ferromagnets increases the magnetization noise by means of a fluctuating spin-transfer torque. Johnson-Nyquist noise in the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jorn Foros , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Current noise in nanoscale systems provides additional information beyond the electronic conductance. We report measurements at room temperature of the nonequilibrium "excess" noise in ensembles of atomic-scale gold junctions repeatedly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Ruoyu Chen , Patrick Wheeler , D. Natelson

Electron transport in a self-consistent potential along a ballistic two-terminal conductor has been investigated. We have derived general formulas which describe the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics, differential conductance, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. M. Bulashenko , J. M. Rubi

We present the analysis of the mean switching time and its standard deviation of short overdamped Josephson junctions, driven by a direct current and a periodic signal. The effect of noise enhanced stability is investigated. It is shown…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Anna V. Gordeeva , Andrey L. Pankratov , Bernardo Spagnolo

In the presence of phase fluctuations the dc Josephson effect is modified and the supercurrent at zero voltage is replaced by a peak at small but finite voltages. It is shown that at zero temperature this peak is determined by two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Hermann Grabert

Tensor networks are employed to characterize the current fluctuations in one-dimensional diffusion-reaction systems. The representative system under study is a semiconducting material where holes and electrons constitute two types of charge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jiayin Gu

We derive a microscopic effective action for superconducting contacts with arbitrary transmission distribution of conducting channels. Provided fluctuations of the Josephson phase remain sufficiently small our formalism allows to fully…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

Electron transport in nano-scale structures is strongly influenced by the Coulomb interaction which gives rise to correlations in the stream of charges and leaves clear fingerprints in the fluctuations of the electrical current. A complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-11 Niels Ubbelohde , Christian Fricke , Christian Flindt , Frank Hohls , Rolf J. Haug

Coulomb blockade phenomena and quantum fluctuations are studied in mesoscopic metallic tunnel junctions with high charging energies. If the resistance of the barriers is large compared to the quantum resistance, transport can be described…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schoen

We study large fluctuations of the current in a Dyson gas, a 1D system of particles interacting through a logarithmic potential and subjected to random noise. We adapt the macroscopic fluctuation theory to the Dyson gas and derive two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Rahul Dandekar , P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick

In addition to the usual superconducting current, Josephson junctions (JJs) support a phase-dependent conductance related to the retardation effect of tunneling quasi-particles. This introduces a dissipative current with a memory-resistive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Forrest Sheldon , Sebastiano Peotta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Statistical properties of the electron transport flowing through nanostructures are strongly influenced by the interactions, geometry of the system and/or by type of the external electrodes. These factors affect not only the average current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 Grzegorz Michałek , Bogdan R. Bułka , Tadeusz Domański , Karol I. Wysokiński

We derive an $n$-resolved Master equation for quantum transport that includes a dependence on the number $n$ of tunneled electrons in system parameters such as tunnel rates and energy levels. We apply the formalism to describe dynamical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Schubotz , T. Brandes

We consider a superconducting loop with two weak links that encloses a magnetic flux. The weak links are unequal and are treated as Josephson junctions with non-sinusoidal phase dependence. We devise a model that takes into account the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge Berger

We investigate theoretically and experimentally stochastic resonance in a quantum dot coupled to electron source and drain via time-dependent tunnel barriers. A central finding is a transition visible in the current noise spectrum as a…

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