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We present a scattering theory description for the inelastic current noise in the presence of electron-vibration interactions. In this description, we specify elastic and inelastic scattering contributions to the shot noise by examining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Sejoong Kim

We investigate shot noise of photon-excited electron-hole pairs in open multi-terminal, multi-channel chaotic dots. Coulomb interactions in the dot are treated self-consistently giving a gauge-invariant expression for the finite frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. L. Polianski , P. Samuelsson , M. Buttiker

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 have measured the low-frequency resistance fluctuations (1 mHz<f<10 Hz) in Ag nanowires of diameter 15 nm<d<200 nm at room temperatures. The power spectral density (PSD) of the fluctuations has a 1/f^{\alpha} character as seen in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aveek Bid , Achyut Bora , A. K. Raychaudhuri

We show experimentally that even when no bias voltage is applied to a quantum conductor, the electronic quantum partition noise can be investigated using GHz radiofrequency irradiation of a reservoir. Using a Quantum Point Contact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. -H. Reydellet , P. Roche , D. C. Glattli , B. Etienne , Y. Jin

Using the recursive Green's function method, we study the problem of electron transport in a disordered single-layer graphene sheet. The conductivity is of order $e^2/h$ and its dependence on the carrier density has a scaling form that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Antonio H. Castro Neto

We report the first direct observation of collective quantum fluctuations in a continuous field. Shot-to-shot atom number fluctuations in small sub-volumes of a weakly interacting ultracold atomic 1D cloud are studied using \textit{in situ}…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-05 Julien Armijo

In this study a method for calculation of the electron-phonon scattering rate in semiconductor structures with one-dimensional electron gas is developed. The energy uncertainty of electrons is taken into account.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Pozdnyakov , Vadim Galenchik

Quantum phase slips (QPS) may produce non-equilibrium voltage fluctuations in current-biased superconducting nanowires. Making use of the Keldysh technique and employing the phase-charge duality arguments we investigate such fluctuations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-11 Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Low noise single-photon sources are a critical element for quantum technologies. We present a heralded single-photon source with an extremely low level of residual background photons, by implementing low-jitter detectors and electronics and…

We investigate current fluctuations in non-degenerate semiconductors, on length scales intermediate between the elastic and inelastic mean free paths. The shot-noise power P is suppressed below the Poisson value P_{\rm Poisson}=2e\bar I (at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 H. Schomerus , E. G. Mishchenko , C. W. J. Beenakker

Shot noise of series quantum point contacts forming a sequence of cavities in a two dimensional electron gas are studied theoretically and experimentally. Noise in such a structure originates from local scattering at the point contacts as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Oberholzer , E. V. Sukhorukov , C. Strunk , C. Schoenenberger

The shot noise in the current through a quantum dot is calculated as a function of voltage from the high-voltage, Coulomb blockaded regime to the low-voltage, Kondo regime. Using several complementary approaches, it is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yigal Meir , Anatoly Golub

We report shot noise spectroscopy on a semiconductor quantum dot in a cotunneling regime. The DC conductance measurements show clear signatures of both elastic and inelastic cotunneling transport inside a Coulomb diamond. We observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Yuma Okazaki , Satoshi Sasaki , Koji Muraki

The shot noise of current through a metallic double quantum dot structure exhibiting negative differential conductance is studied. We can exactly solve the master equation and derive an analytical expression of the spectral density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Lien Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

We investigate the current noise in HgTe-based quantum wells with an inverted band structure in the regime of disordered edge transport. Consistent with previous experiments, the edge resistance strongly exceeds $h/e^2$ and weakly depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 E. S. Tikhonov , D. V. Shovkun , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , V. S. Khrapai

Because of their universal nature, Fano fluctuations are expected to influence the response of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). We predict that photon counting rate ($PCR$) as a function of bias current ($I_B$) in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-16 A. G. Kozorezov , C. Lambert , F. Marsili , M. J. Stevens , V. B. Verma , J. P. Allmaras , M. D. Shaw , R. P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

Nuclear recoils in germanium and silicon are shown to have much larger variance in electron-hole production than their electron-recoil counterparts for recoil energies between 10 and 200\,keV. This effect--owing primarily to deviations in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-13 M. Matheny , A. Roberts , A. Srinivasan , A. N. Villano

Using the method developed in a recent paper (Euro. Phys. J. B 92.8 (2019): 1-28) we consider $1/f$ noise in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). The electron coherence length of the system is considered as a basic parameter for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 M. N. Najafi , S. Tizdast , Z. Moghaddam , M. Samadpour

A Fano-like phonon resonance is observed in few-layer (~3) graphene at room temperature using infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. This Fano resonance is the manifestation of a strong electron-phonon interaction between the discrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Zhihong Liu , Xiaoxiang Lu , Peng Peng , Wei Wu , Steven Pei , Qingkai Yu , Jiming Bao