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We discuss the counting statistics and current noise associated with the double Josephson quasiparticle resonance point in a superconducting single electron transistor. The counting statistics are in general phase-dependent, despite the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Clerk

We present the most complete scattering theory for noise in noninteracting case. The exact formula for spectral density of current fluctuations at finite frequency is presented in terms of scattering matrix for a coherent quantum conductor.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. B. Lesovik

We analyze current fluctuations in mesoscopic coherent conductors in the presence of electron-electron interactions. In a wide range of parameters we obtain explicit universal dependencies of the current noise on temperature, voltage and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Galaktionov , D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

The shot noise in tunneling experiments reflects the Poissonian nature of the tunneling process. The shot noise power is proportional to both the magnitude of the current and the effective charge of the carrier. Shot noise spectroscopy thus…

Based on the scattering matrix theory and non-equilibrium green function method, we have investigated the fluctuations of charge and spin current of the systems which consists of a quantum dot (QD) with a resonant level coupled to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Zahra Sartipi , Javad Vahedi

We propose to use the phenomenon of resonant tunneling for the detection of noise. The main idea of this method relies on the effect of homogeneous broadening of the resonant tunneling peak induced by the emission and absorption of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Jonathan Edwards

Experiments on the direction-resolved full-counting statistics of single-electron tunneling allow testing the fundamentally important Fluctuation Theorem (FT). At the same time, the FT provides a frame for analyzing such data. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Y. Utsumi , D. S. Golubev , M. Marthaler , T. Fujisawa , Gerd Schön

We consider current shot noise and the full counting statistics in a chain of quantum dots which exhibits a continuous non-equilibrium phase transition as a function of the tunnel couplings of the chain with the electrodes. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Torsten Karzig , Felix von Oppen

We present a calculation of noise in the tunneling current through junctions between two two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) in inequivalent Laughlin fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, as a function of voltage and temperature. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nancy P. Sandler , Claudio de C. Chamon , Eduardo Fradkin

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

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

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Deblock , E. Onac , L. Gurevich , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Charge transfer in a tunnel junction is studied under dc and ac voltage bias using quantum shot noise. Under dc voltage bias $V$, spectral density of noise measured within a very large bandwidth enables to deduce the current-current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Julien Gabelli , Karl Thibault , Gabriel Gasse , Christian Lupien , Bertrand Reulet

Continuously measured quantum systems are characterized by an output current, in the form of a stochastic and correlated time series which conveys crucial information about the underlying quantum system. The many tools used to describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Gabriel T. Landi , Michael J. Kewming , Mark T. Mitchison , Patrick P. Potts

We study the behavior of shot noise in resonant tunneling junctions far from equilibrium. Quantum-coherent elastic charge transport can be characterized by a transmission function, that is the probability for an incoming electron at a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Anqi Mu , Dvira Segal

We consider electrical transport through single molecules coupled to metal electrodes via tunneling barriers. Approximating the molecule by the Anderson impurity model as the simplest model which includes Coulomb charging effects, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Thielmann , Matthias H. Hettler , Jürgen König , Gerd Schön

We consider wide ballistic microcontacts with electron-electron scattering in the leads and calculate electric noise and nonlinear conductance in them. Due to a restricted geometry the collisions of electrons result in a shot noise even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. E. Nagaev , T. V. Krishtop , N. Yu. Sergeeva

Several consecutive experiments are described with a printed circuit board PCB set-up, especially designed for these experiments. Doing the consecutive experimental tasks opens up possibility to determine the value of electron charge $q_e.$…

A non-equilibrium theory describing the charge qubit dynamics measured by a quantum point contact is developed based on Schwinger-Keldysh's approach. Using the real-time diagram technique, we derive the master equation to all orders in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ming-Tsung Lee , Wei-Min Zhang

Charged excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect are known to carry fractional charges, as theoretically predicted and experimentally verified. Here we report on the dependence of the tunneling quasiparticle charge, as determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Dolev , Y. Gross , Y. C. Chung , M. Heiblum , V. Umansky , D. Mahalu

Systems near to quantum critical points show universal scaling in their response functions. We consider whether this scaling is reflected in their fluctuations; namely in current-noise. Naive scaling predicts low-temperature Johnson noise…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Green , J. E. Moore , S. L. Sondhi , A. Vishwanath