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The current noise of a voltage biased interacting quantum wire adiabatically connected to metallic leads is computed in presence of an impurity in the wire. We find that in the weak backscattering limit the Fano factor characterizing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Trauzettel , I. Safi , F. Dolcini , H. Grabert

A semiclassical theory is developed for time-dependent current fluctuations in mesoscopic conductors. The theory is based on the Boltzmann-Langevin equation for a degenerate electron gas. The low-frequency shot-noise power is related to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. M. de Jong , C. W. J. Beenakker

In this paper, we present theoretical investigation of the zero-frequency shot noise spectra in electron tunneling through an interacting quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic leads with possibility of spin-flip scattering between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivana Djuric , Bing Dong , H. L. Cui

Strange-metal behavior has been observed in materials ranging from high-temperature superconductors to heavy fermion metals. In conventional metals, current is carried by quasiparticles; although it has been suggested that quasiparticles…

We study the electrical transport properties of a quantum point contact between a lead and a Hight Tc superconductor. For this, we use the Hamiltonian approach and non-equilibrium Green functions of the system. The electrical current and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-19 J. A. Celis G. , William J. Herrera

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

The shot noise in the current through a quantum dot is calculated as a function of voltage from the high-voltage, Coulomb blockaded regime to the low-voltage, Kondo regime. Using several complementary approaches, it is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yigal Meir , Anatoly Golub

A self-consistent theory of shot noise in ballistic two-terminal conductors under the action of long-range Coulomb correlations is presented. Analytical formulas for the electron distribution function and its fluctuation along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. M. Bulashenko , J. M. Rubi , V. A. Kochelap

The frequency-dependent shot noise in long and narrow mesoscopic diffusive contacts is numerically calculated. The case of arbitrarily strong electron-electron scattering and zero temperature of electrodes is considered. For all voltages,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. E. Nagaev

We propose a three-terminal spin-valve setup, to determine experimentally the spin-dependent shot noise, which carries information on the spin-relaxation processes. Based on a spin-dependent Boltzmann-Langevin approach, we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Zareyan , W. Belzig

We report first-principles calculations of shot noise properties of parallel carbon wires in the regime in which the interwire distance is much smaller than the inelastic mean free path. We find that, with increasing interwire distance, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Johan Lagerqvist , Yu-Chang Chen , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We have investigated shot noise in multiterminal, diffusive multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) at 4.2 K over the frequency f = 600 - 850 MHz. Quantitative comparison of our data to semiclassical theory, based on non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-30 T. Tsuneta , P. Virtanen , F. Wu , T. Wang , T. T. Heikkilä , P. J. Hakonen

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

We report measurements of the bias dependence of the Fano factor in ensembles of atomic-scale Au junctions at 77 K. Previous measurements of shot noise at room temperature and low biases have found good agreement of the Fano factor with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Loah A. Stevens , Pavlo Zolotavin , Ruoyu Chen , Douglas Natelson

We theoretically investigate the phase and voltage correlation dynamics, which includes both the deterministic contribution and stochastic fluctuations, under a current noise generated by a resistor including thermal and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Koichiro Furutani , Luca Salasnich

The state of electrons injected onto the surface of the Fermi sea depends on temperature. The state is pure at zero temperature and is mixed at finite temperature. In the case of a single-electron injection, such a transformation can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Michael Moskalets

A fractional quasiparticle charge is a manifestation of strong interactions in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Nevertheless, shot noise of quasiparticles is well described by a formula, derived for noninteracting charges. We explain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 D. E. Feldman , M. Heiblum

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

Charge excitations in a two dimensional electron gas, under a quantizing magnetic field and in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime, flow in one dimensional-like strips along the edges of the sample. These excitations (quasiparticles)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-25 Moty Heiblum

Shot noise at filling factor $\nu=2/5$ is investigated theoretically. It is argued that the "charge" $e^*$ measured by the noise at zero temperature is not the quasiparticle charge but simply the filling factor times the electron charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daijiro Yoshioka