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The control and measurement of local non-equilibrium configurations is of utmost importance in applications on energy harvesting, thermoelectrics and heat management in nano-electronics. This challenging task can be achieved with the help…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 E. S. Tikhonov , D. V. Shovkun , D. Ercolani , F. Rossella , M. Rocci , L. Sorba , S. Roddaro , V. S. Khrapai

We investigate the dynamics of single microparticles immersed in water that are driven out of equilibrium in the presence of an additional external colored noise. As a case study, we trap a single polystyrene particle in water with optical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-17 Pau Mestres , Ignacio A. Martinez , Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz , Raul A. Rica , Edgar Roldan

We discuss intrinsic mechanisms of nonequilibrium excess noise in superconducting devices and transition edge sensors. In particular, we present an overview of fluctuation-driven contributions to the current noise in the vicinity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Juhun Kwak , Emil Pellett , Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

The ab-initio theory of low-field electronic transport properties such as carrier mobility in semiconductors is well-established. However, an equivalent treatment of electronic fluctuations about a non-equilibrium steady state, which are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Alexander Y. Choi , Peishi Cheng , Benjamin Hatanpaa , Austin J. Minnich

The fluctuation in electric current in nonequilibrium steady states is investigated by molecular dynamics simulation of macroscopically uniform conductors. At low frequencies, appropriate decomposition of the spectral intensity of current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tatsuro Yuge , Akira Shimizu

Studies about the constructive aspects of noise and fluctuations in different non-linear systems have shown that the addition of external noise to systems with an intrinsic noise may result in a less noisy response. Recently, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Persano Adorno , N. Pizzolato , B. Spagnolo

We study non-Gaussian out-of-equilibrium current fluctuations in a mesoscopic NSN circuit at the point of a superconducting phase transition. The setup consists of a voltage-biased thin film nanobridge superconductor (S) connected to two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Levchenko

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

Transport phenomena are ubiquitous throughout the science, engineering and technology disciplines as it concerns energy, mass, charge and information exchange between systems. In particular, energy transport in the nanoscale regime has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Chikako Uchiyama , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

We develop a quantum noise approach to study quantum transport through nanostructures. The nanostructures, such as quantum dots, are regarded as artificial atoms, subject to quasi-equilibrium fermionic reservoirs of electrons in biased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 Nan Zhao , Jia-Lin Zhu , R. -B. Liu , C. P. Sun

Typical experimental measurement is set up as a study of the system's response to a stationary external excitation. This approach considers any random fluctuation of the signal as spurious contribution which is to be eliminated via…

The exploration of the rich dynamics of electrons is a frontier in fundamental nano-physics. The dynamical behavior of electrons is dominated by random and chaotic thermal motion with ultrafast ($\approx$ ps) and nanoscale scatterings. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ruijie Qian , S. T. Chui , Zhenghua An , y Hongtao Xu , Zhifang Lin , Zian Ji , Wei Lu

Superconducting circuits are arguably taking a leading role in driving the ongoing quantum technological revolution. A detailed knowledge of the microscopic fluctuating electromagnetic properties plays an important role in advancing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Senlei Li , Shane P. Kelly , Jingcheng Zhou , Hanyi Lu , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hailong Wang , Chunhui Rita Du

The study of charge current fluctuations (noise) can give useful insights into the properties of nanoscale systems. In this work, the peculiar properties of noise in multiterminal hybrid normal-superconducting systems are explored in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Leonardo Pierattelli , Fabio Taddei , Alessandro Braggio

We propose nanoscale magnetometry via isolated single-spin qubits as a probe of superconductivity in two-dimensional materials. We characterize the magnetic field noise at the qubit location, arising from current and spin fluctuations in…

We introduce the notion, and develop the theory of local-noise spectroscopy (LNS) - a tool to study the properties of systems far from equilibrium by means of flux density correlations. As a test bed, we apply it to biased molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Gabriel Cabra , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Michael Galperin

To manufacture faster electron devices, the industry has entered into the nanoscale dimensions and Terahertz (THz) working frequencies. The discrete nature of the few electrons present simultaneously in the active region of ultra-small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Enrique Colomés , Javier Mateos , Tomás González , Xavier Oriols

We study nonlinear transport and non-equilibrium current noise in quasi-classical point contacts (PCs) defined in a low-density high-quality two-dimensional electron system in GaAs. At not too high bias voltages $V$ across the PC the noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 E. S. Tikhonov , M. Yu. Melnikov , D. V. Shovkun , L. Sorba , G. Biasiol , V. S. Khrapai

Effects related with deviations from thermodynamic equilibrium take a special place in the modern physics. Among those, non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum systems attract the highest interest. To date, the experimental technique of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 M. M. Glazov

Noise measurements are a probe beyond simple electronic transport that can reveal additional information about electronic correlations and inelastic processes. Here we report noise measurements in individual electromigrated nanojunctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 P. J. Wheeler , Ruoyu Chen. , D. Natelson
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