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We consider the effects of interactions on the edges of ``double" quantum spin Hall insulators (DQSHIs), motivated by recent experiments on moir\'e twisted metal dichalcogenides. Without interactions, a DQSHI can be understood as two copies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Andreas Tsantilas , Trithep Devakul , Julian May-Mann

Shot noise measures out-of-equilibrium current fluctuations and is a powerful tool to probe the nature of current-carrying excitations in quantum systems. Recent shot noise measurements in the heavy fermion strange metal YbRh$_2$Si$_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-18 Yiming Wang , Chandan Setty , Shouvik Sur , Liyang Chen , Silke Paschen , Douglas Natelson , Qimiao Si

We investigate the behavior of the shot-noise power through quantum mechanical cavities in the semiclassical limit of small electronic wavelength. In the absence of impurity scattering, the Fano factor $F$, giving the noise to current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Philippe Jacquod , Robert S. Whitney

We study sequential tunneling through a metallic nanoparticle close to the Stoner instability coupled to parallely magnetized electrodes. Increasing the bias voltage successively opens transport channels associated with excitations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König , Yuval Gefen

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

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference of fractional quasiparticles in the quantum Hall Effect generally reveals their elementary charge ($e^*$)[1-15]. Recently, our interferometry experiments with several particle states reported flux periods of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Bikash Ghosh , Maria Labendik , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , David F. Mross

We show that the breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law due to electron--electron scattering in diffusive spin valves may result in a strong suppression of the Fano factor that describes the ratio between shot noise and average current. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. T. Heikkila , K. E. Nagaev

We study the scattering of magnetoinductive plane waves by internal (external) capacitive (inductive) defects coupled to a one-dimensional split-ring resonator array. We examine a number of simple defect configurations where Fano resonances…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 Uta Naether , Mario I. Molina

We consider transport in the Poissonian regime between edge states in the quantum Hall effect. The backscattering potential is assumed to be arbitrary, as it allows for multiple tunneling paths. We show that the Schottky relation between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-18 Denis Chevallier , Jérôme Rech , Thibaut Jonckheere , Claire Wahl , Thierry Martin

We formulate a theory for shot noise in quantum nanoelectromechanical systems. As a specific example, the theory is applied to a quantum shuttle, and the zero-frequency noise, measured by the Fano factor F, is computed. F reaches very low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomas Novotny , Andrea Donarini , Christian Flindt , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The statistics of tunneling current in a fractional quantum Hall sample with an antidot is studied in the chiral Luttinger liquid picture of edge states. A comparison between Fano factor and skewness is proposed in order to clearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Braggio , N. Magnoli , M. Merlo , M. Sassetti

We address the shot noise in the tunneling current through a localized spin, pertaining to recent experiments on magnetic adatoms and single molecular magnets. We show that both uncorrelated and spin-correlated scattering processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 S. Pradhan , J. Fransson

Shot-noise of electrons that are transmitted with probability $T$ through a quantum point contact (biased at a voltage $V_0$) leads to a fluctuating current that in turn emits radiation in the microwave regime. By calculating the Fano…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Fabian Hassler , Daniel Otten

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

We design an ingenious spintronic quantum eraser to quantitatively probe the two-electron entanglement. It is shown that the concurrence of two spin-entangled electrons is directly given by the Aharonov-Bohm oscillation amplitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 W. Chen , R. Shen , Z. D. Wang , L. Sheng , B. G. Wang , D. Y. Xing

We investigate out of equilibrium transport through an orbital Kondo system realized in a single quantum dot, described by the multiorbital impurity Anderson model. Shot noise and current are calculated up to the third order in bias voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Rui Sakano , Tatsuya Fujii , Akira Oguri

We study frequency-dependent current noise through a single-level quantum dot connected to ferromagnetic leads with non-collinear magnetization. We propose to use the frequency-dependent Fano factor as a tool to detect single-spin dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We study the current flow through semiconductor quantum rings. In high magnetic field the current is usually injected to the arm of the ring preferred by classical magnetic forces. However, for narrow magnetic field intervals that appear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 M. R. Poniedziałek , B. Szafran

Transport by helical edge states of a quantum spin Hall insulator is experimentally characterized by a weakly temperature-dependent mean free path of a few microns and by reproducible conductance oscillations, challenging proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Lukas Kimme , Bernd Rosenow , Arne Brataas

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…