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A theory of electron counting statistics in quantum transport is presented. It involves an idealized scheme of current measurement using a spin 1/2 coupled to the current so that it precesses at the rate proportional to the current. Within…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , H. -W. Lee , G. B. Lesovik

In order to fully characterize the noise associated with electron transport, with its severe consequences for solid-state quantum information systems, the theory of full counting statistics has been developed. It accounts for correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. A. Bagrets , Y. Utsumi , D. S. Golubev , G. Schoen

We propose a theory that treats the current, noise, and, generally, the full current statistics of electron transfer in a mesoscopic system in a unified, simple and efficient way. The theory appears to be a circuit theory of $2\times 2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Nazarov , D. A. Bagrets

We review the relations between the full counting statistics and the field theory of electric circuits. We demonstrate that for large conductances the counting statistics is determined by non-trivial saddle-point of the field. Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuli V. Nazarov

We derive the full distribution of transmitted particles through a superconducting point contact of arbitrary transparency under voltage bias. The charge transport is dominated by multiple Andreev reflections. The counting statistics is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. Cuevas , W. Belzig

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 theoretically consider charge transport through two quantum dots coupled in series. The corresponding full counting statistics for noninteracting electrons is investigated in the limits of sequential and coherent tunneling by means of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Kiesslich , P. Samuelsson , A. Wacker , E. Schoell

We consider the counting statistics of electron transport through a double quantum dot with special emphasis on the dephasing induced by a nearby charge detector. The double dot is embedded in a dissipative enviroment, and the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-08 Alessandro Braggio , Christian Flindt , Tomas Novotny

The statistics of charge transport across a tunnel junction with energy-dependent scattering is investigated. A model with quadratic dispersion relation is discussed in general and, independently, in the two limiting cases of a large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vincent Beaud , Gian Michele Graf , Andrei V. Lebedev , Gordey B. Lesovik

Charge transfer statistics of quantum particles is obtained by analysing the time evolution of the many-body wave function. Exploiting properly chosen gauge transformations, we construct the probabilities for transfers of a discrete number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Shelankov , J. Rammer

We derive the full counting statistics of charge transfer through a voltage biased superconducting junction. We find that for measurement times much longer than the inverse Josephson frequency, the counting statistics describes a correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Göran Johansson , Peter Samuelsson , Åke Ingerman

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

We discuss how to detect fluctuating spin currents and derive full counting statistics of electron spin transfers. It is interesting to consider several detectors in series that simultaneously monitor different components of the spins…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio Di Lorenzo , Yuli V. Nazarov

The theory of full counting statistics allows complete characterization of charge transport processes through nanoscale systems. The majority of existing theoretical treatments used to obtain the current cumulants rely on perturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Richard Stones , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

We present an extension of the Keldysh-Green's function method, which allows to calculate the full distribution of transmitted particles through a mesoscopic superconductor. The method is applied to the statistics of supercurrent in short…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

We analyze the time-dependent full-counting statistics of charges transmitted through a quantum dot in the coherent regime. The generating function for the time-dependent charge transfer statistics is evaluated numerically by discretizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Rubén Seoane Souto , Álvaro Martín-Rodero , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

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

The article develops a powerful theoretical tool to obtain the full counting statistics. By a slight extension of the standard Keldysh method we can access immediately all correlation functions of the current operator. Embedded in a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Belzig

In low temperature limit, we study electron counting statistics of a disordered conductor. We derive an expression for the distribution of charge transmitted over a finite time interval by using a result from the random matrix theory of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 Hyunwoo Lee , A. Yu. Yakovetz , L. S. Levitov

Explicit formulas are obtained for all moments and for all cumulants of the electric current through a quantum chaotic cavity attached to two ideal leads, thus providing the full counting statistics for this type of system. The approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcel Novaes
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