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We study backscattering of electrons and conductance suppression in a helical edge channel in two-dimensional topological insulators with broken axial spin symmetry in the presence of nonmagnetic point defects that create bound states. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

Time-reversal symmetry suppresses electron backscattering in a quantum-spin-Hall edge, yielding quantized conductance at zero temperature. Understanding the dominant corrections in finite-temperature experiments remains an unsettled issue.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Jason Alicea

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 shot noise at {\it finite temperatures} induced by the quasi-particle tunneling between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) edge states. The resulting Fano factor has the peak structure at a certain bias voltage. Such a structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 E. Iyoda , T. Fujii

A gate-defined quantum dot in an InAs nanowire is fabricated on top of a quantum point contact realized in a two-dimensional electron gas. The strong coupling between these two quantum devices is used to perform time-averaged as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Theodore Choi , Thomas Ihn , Silke Schön , Klaus Ensslin

We construct a trajectory-based semiclassical theory of shot noise in clean chaotic cavities. In the universal regime of vanishing Ehrenfest time $\tE$, we reproduce the random matrix theory result, and show that the Fano factor is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert S. Whitney , Philippe Jacquod

By solving a master equation in the Sierpinski lattice and in a planar random-resistor network, we determine the scaling with size L of the shot noise power P due to elastic scattering in a fractal conductor. We find a power-law scaling P ~…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-01 C. W. Groth , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the influence of inelastic processes on shot noise and the Fano factor for a one-dimensional double-barrier structure, where resonant tunneling takes place between two terminals. Most studies to date have found, by means of various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 I. V. Krainov , A. P. Dmitriev , N. S. Averkiev

When wave scattering systems are subject to certain symmetries, resonant states may decouple from the far-field continuum; they remain localized to the structure and cannot be excited by incident waves from the far field. In this work, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Habib Ammari , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Hyundae Lee , Sanghyeon Yu

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

Recent experiments in silicon MOSFETs indicate that the Hall coefficient is independent of magnetic field applied at a small angle with respect to the plane. Below a scattering between spin-up and spin-down carriers is considered to be the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergey A. Vitkalov

Addressing the feasibility of quantum communication with entangled electrons in an interacting many-body environment, we propose an interference experiment using a scattering set-up with an entangler and a beam splitter. It is shown that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Guido Burkard , Daniel Loss , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We consider partially gapped one dimensional (1D) conductors connected to normal leads, as realized in fractional helical wires. At certain electron densities, some distinct charge mode develops a gap due to electron interactions, leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Eyal Cornfeld , Izhar Neder , Eran Sela

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

The Fano factor stability diagram of a C$_{3v}$ symmetric triangular quantum dot is analysed for increasing electron fillings $N$. At low filling, conventional Poissonian and sub-Poissonian behavior is found. At larger filling, $N\ge 2$, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Michael Niklas , Andreas Trottmann , Andrea Donarini , Milena Grifoni

Asymmetric spectral line shapes are a hallmark of interference of a quasi-bound state with a continuum of states. Such line shapes are well known for multichannel systems, for example, in photoionization or Feshbach resonances in molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Prerna Paliwal , Alexander Blech , Christiane P. Koch , Edvardas Narevicius

We show how shot noise in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime probes the charge and statistics of quantum Hall quasiparticles. The dependence of the noise on the magnetic flux through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. E. Feldman , Yuval Gefen , Alexei Kitaev , K. T. Law , Ady Stern

Fluctuations of electric current in a spin valve consisting of a diffusive conductor connected to ferromagnetic leads and operated in the giant magnetoresistance regime are studied. It is shown that a new source of fluctuations due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko

Theory of electron-acoustic single phonon scattering has been reconsidered. It is assumed that the non-degenerate semiconductor has a spherical parabolic band structure. In the basis of the reconsideration there is a phenomenon of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 S. V. Melkonyan , A. L. Harutyunyan , T. A. Zalinyan

The paper reports on a study of electron-phonon interaction within a limited nanosized region. We invoked the modified Fr\"{o}hlich's Hamiltonian to calculate the electron self-energy, as well as the elastic and inelastic scattering cross…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. V. Reich