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This is a study of phase-coherent conduction through a ballistic point contact with disordered leads. The disorder imposes mesoscopic (sample-to-sample) fluctuations and weak-localization corrections on the conductance, and also leads to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , J. A. Melsen

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

Electron spins in silicon have long coherence times and are a promising qubit platform. However, electric field noise in semiconductors poses a challenge for most single- and multi-qubit operations in quantum-dot spin qubits. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Elliot J. Connors , JJ Nelson , Haifeng Qiao , Lisa F. Edge , John M. Nichol

Using the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function technique, we study the current and shot noise spectroscopy of a single interacting quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads with different polarizations. The polarizations of leads can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rong Lu , Zhi-Rong Liu

We present a frequency domain model of shot noise in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains using a time-varying analysis. Shot noise-limited photocurrent power spectral densities, signal-to-noise expressions, and shot noise…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Franklyn Quinlan , Tara M. Fortier , Haifeng Jiang , Scott A. Diddams

A method for the calculation of the conductance of nanoscale electrical junctions is extended to ab-initio electronic structure methods and applied to realistic models of metallic wires and break-junctions of sodium and gold. The method is…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-13 Matthieu J. Verstraete , P. Bokes , R. W. Godby

In this paper we report a relaxation-induced suppression of the noise for a single level quantum dot coupled to an oscillator with incoherent dynamics in the sequential tunneling regime. It is shown that relaxation induces qualitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Haupt , F. Cavaliere , R. Fazio , M. Sassetti

The high-frequency transconductance and current noise of top-gated single carbon nanotube transistors have been measured and used to investigate hot electron effects in one-dimensional transistors. Results are in good agreement with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 J. Chaste , E. Pallecchi , P. Morfin , G. Feve , T. Kontos , J. -M. Berroir , P. Hakonen , B. Placais

Quantum dots (QDs) investigated through electron transport measurements often exhibit varying, state-dependent tunnel couplings to the leads. Under specific conditions, weakly coupled states can result in a strong suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 M. -C. Harabula , V. Ranjan , R. Haller , G. Fülöp , C. Schönenberger

We consider partially gapped one dimensional (1D) conductors connected to normal leads, as realized in fractional helical wires. At certain electron densities, some distinct charge mode develops a gap due to electron interactions, leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Eyal Cornfeld , Izhar Neder , Eran Sela

We have studied how the lateral interaction affects the electric conductance, the second-order current correlation (shot noise), and the third-order one (skewness) of a pair of parallel Al atomic wires. The field operator of wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Ying-Tsan Tang , Yu-Chang Chen

Shot noise is studied in a single normal metal-superconductor (N-S) junction at finite frequency, and for branched N-S junctions at zero frequency. The noise spectral density displays a singularity at the Josephson frequency ($\omega =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Julien Torres , Thierry Martin , Gordey B. Lesovik

The exact structure of edge modes in `hole conjugate' fractional quantum Hall states remains an unsolved issue despite significant experimental and theoretical efforts devoted to their understanding. Recently, there has been a surge of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-24 Aveek Bid , Nissim Ofek , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

A theory is developed to study shot noise in superconducting (SAS) and hybrid (SAN) junctions with singly occupied Anderson impurity (A) as a weak link. The zero-frequency DC component of the shot noise spectral density is calculated at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Avishai , A. Golub , A. D. Zaikin

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

We study a shot noise of a wide channel gated high-frequency transistor at temperature of 4.2K near pinch-off. In this regime, a transition from the metallic to the insulating state is expected to occur, accompanied by the increase of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. S. Khrapai , D. V. Shovkun

When the rate of shot noise is controlled by on-off states we speak of intermittent shot noise. The on-off states lead to alternately occurring clusters of events and intermissions, respectively. We derive the power spectrum of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-04 Ferdinand Grueneis

The recent, unexpected, findings of upstream neutral modes in particle-like fractional quantum Hall states, led to a realization that the nature of the neutral modes is far from being understood. Moreover, the observation of spatially…

We consider a quantum wire double junction system with each wire segment described by a spinless Luttinger model, and study theoretically shot noise in this system in the sequential tunneling regime. We find that the non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaeuk U. Kim , Jari M. Kinaret , Mahn-Soo Choi

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