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We explore the full counting statistics of single electron tunneling through a quantum dot using a quantum point contact as non-invasive high bandwidth charge detector. The distribution of counted tunneling events is measured as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Fricke , F. Hohls , W. Wegscheider , R. J. Haug

We study theoretically the current-noise energy dependence for a N-N'-S structure, where N and S stand for bulk normal metal and superconductor, respectively, and N' for a short diffusive normal metal. Using quasiclassical theory of current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Bignon , F. Pistolesi , M. Houzet

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 theoretically the full distribution of transferred charge in a tunnel junction (or quantum point contact) coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator, as well as the conditional evolution of the oscillator. Even if the oscillator is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. D. Bennett , A. A. Clerk

We consider quasiparticle charge and energy imbalances in a thin superconductor weakly coupled with two normal-metal electrodes via tunnel junctions at low temperatures. Charge and energy imbalances, which can be created by injecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yositake Takane

We analyze the noise properties of both electric charge and heat currents as well as their correlations in a quantum-dot based thermoelectric engine. The engine is a three-terminal conductor with crossed heat and charge flows where heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Andrew N. Jordan , Markus Büttiker

We study the full counting statistics of electric current to several drain terminals with spin-dependent entrance conductances. We show that the statistics of charge transfers can be interpreted in terms of single electrons and spin-singlet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Di Lorenzo , Yuli V. Nazarov

Specific features of the equilibrium current-carrying state of a Josephson tunnel junction between diffusive superconductors are studied theoretically in the 1D geometry. It is found that the Josephson current induces localized states of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-03 E. V. Bezuglyi , E. N. Bratus' , V. P. Galaiko

The generating function of energy counting statistics is derived for phononic junction systems. It is expressed in terms of the contour-ordered self-energy of the lead with shifted arguments, $\Sigma^A(\tau, \tau') = \Sigma_L\bigl(\tau…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 Jian-Sheng Wang , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Huanan Li

We study current fluctuations in tunnel junctions driven by a voltage source. The voltage is applied to the tunneling element via an impedance providing an electromagnetic environment of the junction. We use circuit theory to relate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Moritz Frey , Hermann Grabert

We study the dc conductance and current fluctuations in diffusive voltage biased SNS junctions with a tunnel barrier inside the mesoscopic normal region. We find that at subgap voltages, eV<2Delta/n, the current associated with the chain of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-03 E. V. Bezuglyi , E. N. Bratus' , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We calculate analytically the current statistics for a short diffusive wire between the normal reservoir and a short superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junction, at arbitrary applied voltages and temperatures. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. Bezuglyi , E. N. Bratus' , V. S. Shumeiko , V. Vinokur

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

We study the statistical properties of charge and energy transport in electron conducting junctions with electron-phonon interactions, specifically, the thermoelectric efficiency and its fluctuations. The system comprises donor and acceptor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Hua Jiang , Dvira Segal

Current and its noise in a ferromagnetic double tunnel barrier device with a small spacer particle were studied in the framework of the sequential tunneling approach. Analytical formulae were derived for electron tunneling through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bogdan R. Bulka

We compute the zero frequency current noise numerically and in several limits analytically for the coulomb blockade problem consisting of two tunnel junctions connected in series. At low temperatures over a wide range of voltages,…

We consider a tunnel junction between two arbitrary non-linear systems in any dimension, which can be different. We show that the tunneling charge can be detected using three alternative methods based on current measurements. Besides being…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ines Safi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Fluctuations of the current through a tunnel junction are measured using a Josephson junction. The current noise adds to the bias current of the Josephson junction and affects its switching out of the supercurrent branch. The experiment is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Q. Le Masne , H. Pothier , Norman O. Birge , C. Urbina , D. Esteve

For a non-superconducting system, the electronic tunneling current through an insulating barrier is calculated, including interaction effects. The exact Hamiltonian of the full system is projected onto the subspaces of the "left" and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Kelly R. Patton

Current noise provides useful information on correlations important for transport properties of mesoscopic systems. Of particular interest, both experimentally and theoretically, are heterostructures of normal metals and superconductors. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 W. Belzig , J. Boerlin , C. Bruder , Yu. V. Nazarov