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We report on a quantum form of electronic flicker noise in nanoscale conductors that contains valuable information on quantum transport. This noise is experimentally identified in atomic and molecular junctions, and theoretically analyzed…

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The effect of quantum fluctuations on the current-voltage characteristics of Josephson junctions and superconducting nanowires is studied in the underdamped limit. Quantum fluctuations induce transitions between a Coulomb--blockade and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-21 A. Zazunov , N. Didier , F. W. J. Hekking

We consider a model in which the quantum fluctuation can be controlled and show that the system responds to a spatially periodic external field at zero temperature. This signifies the occurrence of spatial stochastic resonance where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Parongama Sen

Unwanted fluctuations over time, in short, noise, are detrimental to device performance, especially for quantum coherent circuits. Recent efforts have demonstrated routes to utilizing magnon systems for quantum technologies, which are based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Tim Wolz , Luke McLellan , Alexander Stehli , Andre Schneider , Jan David Brehm , Hannes Rotzinger , Alexey V. Ustinov , Martin Weides

We review the physical phenomena that arise when quantum mechanical energy levels are modulated in time. The dynamics resulting from changes in the transition frequency is a problem studied since the early days of quantum mechanics. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 M. P. Silveri , J. A. Tuorila , E. V. Thuneberg , G. S. Paraoanu

Stochastic resonance is a phenomenon in which fluctuations enhance an otherwise weak signal. It has been found in many different systems in paleoclimatology, biology, medicine, and physics. The classical stochastic resonance due to thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 H. Mannel , J. Zöllner , E. Kleinherbers , M. Zöllner , N. Schwarz , F. Rimek , A. D. Wieck , A. Ludwig , A. Lorke , J. König , M. Geller

We observe the suppression of the finite frequency shot-noise produced by a voltage biased tunnel junction due to its interaction with a single electromagnetic mode of high impedance. The tunnel junction is embedded in a quarter wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 C. Altimiras , O. Parlavecchio , P. Joyez , D. Vion , P. Roche , D. Esteve , F. Portier

The theory of time-dependent quantum transport addresses the question: How do electrons flow through a junction under the influence of an external perturbation as time goes by? In this paper, we invert this question and search for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

We study the noise spectra of a many-level quantum dot coupled to two electron reservoirs, when interactions are taken into account only on the dot within the Hartree-Fock approximation. The dependence of the noise spectra on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 N. Gabdank , E. A. Rothstein , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Quantum noise with exchange and tunneling is studied within time-dependent wave packets. A novel expression for the quantum noise of two identical particles injected simultaneously from opposite sides of a tunneling barrier is presented.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Enrique Colomés , Damiano Marian , Xavier Oriols

Expressing currents and their fluctuations at the terminals of a multi-probe conductor in terms of the wave functions of carriers injected into the Fermi sea provides new insight into the physics of electric currents. This approach helps us…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Michael Moskalets

Quantum annealing is a method to solve optimization problems that leverages quantum tunneling in a coupled qubit system. We present a detailed study of the coherence of a tunable capacitively-shunted flux qubit, designed for coherent…

Fractional quantum Hall quasiparticles are famous for having fractional electric charge. Recent experiments report that the quasiparticles' effective electric charge determined through tunneling current noise measurements can depend on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-02 Kyrylo Snizhko

We present a theory of finite-frequency noise in non-equilibrium conductors. It is shown that Non-Markovian correlations are essential to describe the physics of quantum noise. In particular, we show the importance of a correct treatment of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 D. Marcos , C. Emary , T. Brandes , R. Aguado

It is shown that in many-electron systems quantum transfer amplitudes and thus transfer probabilities may be strongly influenced by fast fluctuating fields, in particular, caused by simultaneous electron transfers. Corresponding mutual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

In quantum computing, characterizing the full noise profile of qubits can aid in increasing coherence times and fidelities by developing error-mitigating techniques specific to the noise present. This characterization also supports efforts…

We present a study of current fluctuations in two models proposed as quantum shuttles. Based on a numerical evaluation of the first three cumulants of the full counting statistics we have recently shown that a giant enhancement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christian Flindt , Tomas Novotny , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The quantum measurement process by a single-electron transistor or a quantum point contact coupled to a quantum bit is studied. We find a unified description of the statistics of the monitored quantity, the current, in the regime of strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy Makhlin , Gerd Schoen , Alexander Shnirman

We study the dynamics of a nonlinear oscillator near the critical point where period-two vibrations are first excited with the increasing amplitude of parametric driving. Above the threshold, quantum fluctuations induce transitions between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Z. R. Lin , Y. Nakamura , M. I. Dykman

We demonstrate that shot noise in Fe/MgO/Fe/MgO/Fe double-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions is determined by the relative magnetic configuration of the junction and also by the asymmetry of the barriers. The proposed theoretical model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 J. P. Cascales , D. Herranz , F. G. Aliev , T. Szczepanski , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , A. Duluard , M. Hehn , C. Tiusan