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Strange metal behavior has been observed in an expanding list of quantum materials, with heavy fermion metals serving as a prototype setting. Among the intriguing questions is the nature of charge carriers; there is an increasing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Yiming Wang , Shouvik Sur , Fang Xie , Haoyu Hu , Silke Paschen , Douglas Natelson , Qimiao Si

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Shot noise measurements are widely used for the characterization of nonequilibrium configurations in electronic conductors. The recently introduced quantum tomography approach was implemented for the studies of electronic wavefunctions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 E. S. Tikhonov , A. O. Denisov , S. U. Piatrusha , I. N. Khrapach , J. P. Pekola , B. Karimi , R. N. Jabdaraghi , V. S. Khrapai

We evaluate the RC-time of edge states capacitively coupled to a gate located away from a QPC which allows for partial transmission of an edge channel. At long times or low frequencies the RC-time governs the relaxation of charge and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Markus Buttiker

The quantum behaviour of the electromagnetic field in mesoscopic elements is intimately linked to the quantization of the charge. In order to probe nonclassical aspects of the field in those elements, it is essential that thermal noise be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Stéphane Virally , Jean Olivier Simoneau , Christian Lupien , Bertrand Reulet

We review a semiclassical theory of high-field noise in degenerate conductors, based on propagator solutions to the Boltzmann equation for the fluctuation distribution function. The theory provides a microscopic description of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Green , M. P. Das

Charge fractionalization is a possible emergent excitation in a low-dimensional system of interacting electrons. A known example is that of fractional charges in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) regime, which is a consequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Hiroyuki Inoue , Anna Grivnin , Nissim Ofek , Izhar Neder , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

Nonequilibrium situations where selected currents are suppressed are of interest in fields like thermoelectrics and spintronics, raising the question of how the related noises behave. We study such zero-current charge, spin, and heat noises…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Ludovico Tesser , Matteo Acciai , Christian Spånslätt , Juliette Monsel , Janine Splettstoesser

The shot noise in a quantum ring, connected to leads, is studied in the presence of electron interactions in the sequential tunneling regime. Two qualitatively different noise correlations with distinctly different behaviors are identified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 F. Cavaliere , F. Haupt , R. Fazio , M. Sassetti

Shot noise measurements provide information on particles' charge and their correlations. We report on shot noise measurements in a ubiquitous quantum dot under a quantized magnetic field. The measured noise at the peaks of a sequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Zarchin , Y. C. Chung , M. Heiblum , D. Rohrlich , V. Umansky

We propose ways to create and detect fractionally charged excitations in \emph{integer} quantum Hall edge states. The charge fractionalization occurs due to the Coulomb interaction between electrons propagating on different edge channels.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Berg , Y. Oreg , E. -A. Kim , F. von Oppen

It is shown, with citing tunnel junction as an example, that mutual interplay of electron quantum transfers in a conducting system can be the fast mechanism for generation fundamental low-frequency flicker conductance fluctuations (1/f…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. E. Kuzovlev , Yu. V. Medvedev , A. M. Grishin

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

Fractional charges in the fractional quantum Hall effect were first observed via DC shot noise measurements of anyons tunneling at a quantum point contact (QPC). However, in scenarios with simultaneous tunneling of different types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kishore Iyer , Flavio Ronetti , Benoît Grémaud , Thierry Martin , Thibaut Jonckheere , Jérôme Rech

Motivated by activities of several experimental groups we investigate electron transport through two coherent, strongly coupled quantum dots ("double quantum dots"), taking into account both intra- and inter-dot Coulomb interactions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jasmin Aghassi , Axel Thielmann , Matthias H. Hettler , Gerd Schön

A theory of electron counting statistics in quantum transport is presented. It involves an idealized scheme of current measurement using a spin 1/2 coupled to the current so that it precesses at the rate proportional to the current. Within…

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

We report on a direct experimental evidence of shot noise in a linear macroscopic resistor. The origin of the shot noise comes from the fluctuation of the total number of charge carriers inside the resistor associated with their diffusive…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Gomila , C. Pennetta , L. Reggiani , M. Sampietro , G. Ferrari , G. Bertuccio

We generalize the scattering theory of quantum shot noise to include the full spin-density matrix of electrons injected from a spin-filtering or ferromagnetic electrode into a quantum-coherent nanostructure governed by various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralitsa L. Dragomirova , Branislav K. Nikolic

We study shot noise for generic quantum dots coupled to two leads and allow for an arbitrary strength of diffractive impurity scattering inside the dots. The ballistic quantum dots possess a mixed classical phase space, where regular and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -S. Sim , H. Schomerus

Electron transport in mesoscopic conductors has traditionally involved investigations of the mean current and the fluctuations of the current. A complementary view on charge transport is provided by the distribution of waiting times between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Mathias Albert , Géraldine Haack , Christian Flindt , Markus Büttiker