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The low-temperature kinetics of the strongly correlated electron liquid inhabiting a solid is analyzed. It is demonstrated that a softly damped branch of transverse zero sound emerges when several bands cross the Fermi surface…

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We study a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction in an environment with intrinsic incoherent fluctuations which couple to the junction through an electromagnetic field. When the temperature of the junction differs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-04 Juha Voutilainen , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

We introduce thermal fluctuations in the lattice Boltzmann method for non-ideal fluids. A fluctuation-dissipation theorem is derived within the Langevin framework and applied to a specific lattice Boltzmann model that approximates the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Gross , R. Adhikari , M. E. Cates , F. Varnik

We discuss fluctuations in the measurement process and how these fluctuations are related to the dissipational parameter characterising quantum damping or decoherence. On the example of the measuring current of the variable-barrier or QPC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Stodolsky

Fluctuations are important near phase transitions, where they can be difficult to describe quantitatively. Superconductivity in mesoscopic rings is particularly intriguing because the critical temperature is an oscillatory function of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-06 Nicholas C. Koshnick , Hendrik Bluhm , Martin E. Huber , Kathryn A. Moler

Employing the non-linear $\sigma$-model we analyze current fluctuations in coherent composite conductors which contain a diffusive element in-between two tunnel barriers. For such systems we explicitly evaluate the frequency-dependent third…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

The control and measurement of local non-equilibrium configurations is of utmost importance in applications on energy harvesting, thermoelectrics and heat management in nano-electronics. This challenging task can be achieved with the help…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 E. S. Tikhonov , D. V. Shovkun , D. Ercolani , F. Rossella , M. Rocci , L. Sorba , S. Roddaro , V. S. Khrapai

Thermodynamic and transport properties of normal disordered conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor. A cooperation between mesoscopic coherence and Andreev scattering of particles from the superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexander Altland , B D Simons , D Taras-Semchuk

We investigate the injection of degenerate Fermi-Dirac electrons into a multimode ballistic conductor under the space-charge limited regime. The nonequilibrium current fluctuations were found to be suppressed by both Coulomb and Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. M. Bulashenko , J. M. Rubi

We consider a three-terminal system with a chiral edge channel connecting the source and drain terminals. Charge can tunnel between the chiral edge and a third terminal. The third terminal is maintained at a different temperature and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Chenjie Wang , D. E. Feldman

Magnetoconductance fluctuations are used to study the effect of an applied bias on an electron billiard. At lower bias, nonlinear effects can be well described by electron heating alone, while at higher bias (V > 2mV, ~5% of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 C. A. Marlow , R. P. Taylor , M. Fairbanks , H. Linke

The Boltzmann-Langevin equation is used to relate the shot-noise power of a mesoscopic conductor to classical transmission probabilities at the Fermi level. This semiclassical theory is applied to tunneling through n barriers in series. For…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 M. J. M. de Jong , C. W. J. Beenakker

For diffusive systems that can be described by fluctuating hydrodynamics and by the Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory of Bertini et al., the total current fluctuations display universal features when the system is closed and in equilibrium.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 Vivien Lecomte , Alberto Imparato , Frédéric Van Wijland

By treating the electron-ion interaction as perturbation in the first-principles Hamiltonian, we have calculated the density response functions of a fluid alkali metal to find an interesting charge instability due to anomalous electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Maebashi , Y. Takada

Near equilibrium, where all currents of a system vanish on average, the fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR) connects a current's spontaneous fluctuations with its response to perturbations of the conjugate thermodynamic force. Out of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-02 Bernhard Altaner , Matteo Polettini , Massimiliano Esposito

The electrical and heat currents flowing through a quantum dot are calculated in the presence of a time-modulated gate voltage with the help of the out-of-equilibrium Green function technique. From the first harmonics of the currents, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Adeline Crépieux

Quantum mechanics can strongly influence the noise properties of mesoscopic devices. To probe this effect we have measured the current fluctuations at high-frequency (5-90G Hz) using a superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Deblock , E. Onac , L. Gurevich , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We study the influence of dissipation on the switching current statistics of moderately damped Josephson junctions. Different types of both low- and high- $T_c$ junctions with controlled damping are studied. The damping parameter of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-11 V. M. Krasnov , T. Golod , T. Bauch , P. Delsing

We have studied the distribution of equilibrium edge current density in 2D system in a strong (quantizing) magnetic field. The case of half plane in normal magnetic field has been considered. The transition from classical strong magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill , M. M. Mahmoodian

We calculate fluctuation corrections to the longitudinal conductivity of disordered superconductors subject to an external magnetic field. We derive analytic expressions that are valid in the entire metallic part of the temperature-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Brian Tarasinski , Georg Schwiete