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We present a microscopic model for calculating the AC conductivity of a finite length line junction made up of two counter or co-propagating single mode quantum Hall edges with possibly different filling fractions. The effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Amit Agarwal , Diptiman Sen

We have studied low-frequency resistance fluctuations in shadow-evaporated Al/AlOx/Al tunnel junctions. Between 300 K and 5 K the spectral density follows a 1/f-law. Below 5 K, individual defects distort the 1/f-shape of the spectrum. The…

We present low-temperature measurements of the low-frequency $1/f$ noise arising from an ensemble of two-level fluctuators in the oxide barrier of Al/AlO$_{x}$/Al Josephson junctions. The fractional noise power spectrum of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-06 C. D. Nugroho , V. Orlyanchik , D. J. Van Harlingen

We have measured the low-frequency resistance fluctuations (1 mHz<f<10 Hz) in Ag nanowires of diameter 15 nm<d<200 nm at room temperatures. The power spectral density (PSD) of the fluctuations has a 1/f^{\alpha} character as seen in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aveek Bid , Achyut Bora , A. K. Raychaudhuri

Conductivity noise in dc current biased La_{0.82}Ca_{0.18}MnO_{3} single crystals has been investigated in different metastable resistivity states enforced by applying voltage pulses to the sample at low temperatures. Noise measured in all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Dolgin , M. Belogolovskii , X. D. Wu , V. Markovich , G. Jung

Microrefrigerators based on normal metal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) junctions represent a very attractive alternative to cool the microbolometers and calorimeters for astrophysical observations in space-borne experiments. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Anghel , J. P. Pekola

We report on the low frequency (LF) noise measurements in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) below 4 K and at low bias, where the transport is strongly affected by scattering with magnons emitted by hot tunnelling electrons, as thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Liang Liu , Li Xiang , Huiqiang Guo , Jian Wei , D. L. Li , Z. H. Yuan , J. F. Feng , X. F. Han , J. M. D. Coey

Current Induced Resistance Switching (CIS) was recently observed in thin tunnel junctions with ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes \emph{i.e} FM/I/FM. This effect was attributed to electromigration of metallic atoms in nanoconstrictions in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Ventura , J. B. Sousa , Y. Liu , Z. Zhang , P. P. Freitas

We present measurements of 1/f frequency noise in both linear and Josephson-junction-embedded superconducting aluminum resonators in the low power, low temperature regime - typical operating conditions for superconducting qubits. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 K. W. Murch , S. J. Weber , E. M. Levenson-Falk , R. Vijay , I. Siddiqi

In this article we present simple approaches to the calculation of P(i) (the probability distribution of current fluctuations) in a tunnel junction, and to the effect of the environment on noise measurements in terms of the modification of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertrand Reulet

We study excess noise in a quantum conductor in the presence of constant voltage and alternating external field. Due to a two particle interference effect caused by Fermi correlations the noise is sensitive to the phase of the time…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , G. B. Lesovik

We observed a dramatic peak in the 1/f noise at the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in low-Tc manganites. This many-orders-of-magnitude noise enhancement is observed for both polycrystalline and single-crystal samples of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Podzorov , M. Uehara , M. E. Gershenson , S-W. Cheong

We report on room temperature low frequency noise due to magnetic inhomogeneities/domain walls (MI/DWs) in elliptic submicron FeCoB/MgO/FeCoB magnetic tunnel junctions with an area between 0.0245 and 0.0675{\mu}m2. In the smaller area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 D. Herranz , A. Gomez-Ibarlucea , M. Schäfers , A. Lara , G. Reiss , F. G. Aliev

We examine current fluctuations in tunnel junctions driven by a superposition of a constant and a sinusoidal voltage source. In standard setups the external voltage is applied to the tunneling element via an impedance providing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Moritz Frey , Hermann Grabert

We present the first measurements of the third moment of the voltage fluctuations in a conductor. This technique can provide new and complementary information on the electronic transport in conducting systems. The measurement was performed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Reulet , L. Spietz , C. M. Wilson , J. Senzier , D. E. Prober

We investigate transport properties of molecular junctions under two types of bias--a short time pulse or an AC bias--by combining a solution for the Green functions in the time domain with electronic structure information coming from ab…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-18 San-Huang Ke , Rui Liu , Weitao Yang , Harold U. Baranger

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

We have measured the low frequency critical current noise in Nb/AlO$_{\mathrm{x}}$/Nb Josephson junctions. Unshunted junctions biased above the gap voltage and resistively shunted junctions biased near the critical current, $I_{c}$, have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Shawn Pottorf , Vijay Patel , James E. Lukens

The magnetic behaviour of nanoparticles of antiferromagnetic ferritin, with a mean Fe loading of 410 atoms per core, has been investigated by 57Fe Mossbauer absorption spectroscopy down to very low temperature (34mK). In previous experi-…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Gilles , P. Bonville , K. K. W. Wong , S. Mann

We discuss the use of a hysteretic Josephson junction to detect current fluctuations with frequencies below the plasma frequency of the junction. These adiabatic fluctuations are probed by switching measurements observing the noise-affected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-29 J. T. Peltonen , A. V. Timofeev , M. Meschke , J. P. Pekola