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We study the statistics of charge transport in a chaotic cavity attached to external reservoirs by two openings of different size which transmit non-equal number of quantum channels. An exact formula for the cumulant generating function has…

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We study theoretically the Josephson effect in junctions based on unconventional superconductors with diffusive barriers, using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. Generalized boundary conditions at junction interfaces applicable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov

We study theoretically the full counting statistics of electron transport through side-coupled double quantum dot (QD) based on an efficient particle-number-resolved master equation. It is demonstrated that the high-order cumulants of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Hai-Bin Xue

We study fluctuations of electric current in a quantum resistor and derive a general quantum-mechanical formula for the distribution of transmitted charge. For that we introduce a scheme of current measurement that involves a spin $1/2$…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov , G. B. Lesovik

We show that the statistics of electron transfer in a coherent quantum point contact driven by an arbitrary time-dependent voltage is composed of elementary events of two kinds: unidirectional one-electron transfers determining the average…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-13 Mihajlo Vanevic , Yuli V. Nazarov , Wolfgang Belzig

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based full ab initio description of the central region of the junction combined with a tight…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schnurpfeil , Bo Song , Martin Albrecht

Electron transport in a self-consistent potential along a ballistic two-terminal conductor has been investigated. We have derived general formulas which describe the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics, differential conductance, and…

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

Non-equilibrium excess noise of a short quasi one-dimensional constriction between two superconductors is considered. A general expression for the current-current correlation function valid for arbitrary temperatures and bias voltages is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. P. Hessling , V. S. Shumeiko , Yu. M. Galperin , G. Wendin

We study the full probability distribution of the charge transmitted through a mesoscopic diffusive conductor during a measurement time T. We have considered a semi-classical model, with an exclusion principle in a discretized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. -E. Roche , B. Doucot

Surface sensitive electric current measurements are important experimental tools poorly corroborated by theoretical models. We show that the drift-diffusion equations offer a framework for a consistent description of such experiments. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 Jakub Lis

We derive an effective action for contacts between superconducting terminals with arbitrary transmission distribution of conducting channels. In the case of normal-superconducting (NS) contacts we evaluate interaction correction to Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

The observation of very large microwave-enhanced critical currents in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions at temperatures well below the critical temperature of the electrodes has remained without a satisfactory…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-06-18 Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Juan Carlos Cuevas

We studied electronic relaxation in long diffusive superconductor / normal metal / superconductor (S/N/S) junctions by means of current noise and transport measurements down to very low temperature (100mK). Samples with normal metal lengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Hoffmann , F. Lefloch , M. Sanquer

We study inelastic effects on the electronic current noise in molecular junctions, due to the coupling between transport electrons and vibrational degrees of freedom. Using a full counting statistics approach based on the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Federica Haupt , Tomas Novotny , Wolfgang Belzig

A method to calculate the statistics of energy exchange between quantum systems is presented. The generating function of this statistics is expressed through a Keldysh path integral. The method is first applied to the problem of heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kindermann , S. Pilgram

We analyze charge tunneling statistics and current noise in a superconducting single-electron transistor in a regime where the Josephson-quasiparticle cycle is the dominant mechanism of transport. Due to the interplay between Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mahn-Soo Choi , Francesco Plastina , Rosario Fazio

I present a review of the theory and basic equations for charge transport in superconducting alloys starting from the Keldysh formulation of the quasiclassical transport equations developed by Eilenberger, Larkin and Ovchinnikov and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-30 J. A. Sauls

We study nonequilibrium noise correlations in diffusive normal-superconducting structures in the presence of a supercurrent. We present a parametrization for the quasiclassical Green's function in the first order of the counting field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Markku P. V. Stenberg , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

We investigate nonequilibrium noise in a diffusive Andreev interferometer, in which currents emerging from two Normal metal/Superconductor (N-S) interfaces can interfere. We observe a modulation of the shot noise when the phase difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Reulet , A. A. Kozhevnikov , D. E. Prober , W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

We study theoretically the current-voltage characteristics, shot noise, and full counting statistics of a quantum wire double barrier structure. We model each wire segment by a spinless Luttinger liquid. Within the sequential tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaeuk U. Kim , Mahn-Soo Choi , Ilya V. Krive , Jari M. Kinaret