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We report on measurements of single electron tunneling through a quantum dot using a quantum point contact as non-invasive charge detector with fast time response. We elaborate on the unambiguous identification of individual tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 Christian Fricke , Frank Hohls , Christian Flindt , Rolf J. Haug

Non-adiabatic charge pumping through a single-level quantum dot with periodically modulated parameters is studied theoretically. By means of a quantum-master-equation approach the full counting statistics of the system is obtained. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann

Electron counting statistics of a current pump in an open system has universal form in the weak pumping current regime. In the time domain, charge transmission is described by two uncorrelated Poisson processes, corresponding to electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov

We present a stochastic path integral method to calculate the full counting statistics of conductors with energy conserving dephasing probes and dissipative voltage probes. The approach is explained for the experimentally important case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Pilgram , P. Samuelsson , H. Forster , M. Buttiker

We study counting statistics of electric current pumped by pulses of an external field. The fluctuations depend on the pulse shape, and can be minimized by choosing the pulse shape properly. For an optimal pulse shape, the fluctuations are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. A. Ivanov , Hyunwoo Lee , L. S. Levitov

We show that the statistics of electron transfer in a coherent quantum point contact driven by an arbitrary time-dependent voltage is composed of elementary events of two kinds: unidirectional one-electron transfers determining the average…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-13 Mihajlo Vanevic , Yuli V. Nazarov , Wolfgang Belzig

We study the charge transport statistics in coherent two-terminal double junctions within the framework of the circuit theory of mesoscopic transport. We obtain the general solution of the circuit-theory matrix equations for the Green's…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Mihajlo Vanevic , Wolfgang Belzig

We study the full charge counting statistics of a charge pump based on a nearly open single electron transistor. The problem is mapped onto an exactly soluble problem of a g=1/2 non-equilibrium Luttinger liquid with an impurity. We obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Andreev , E. G. Mishchenko

We derive a stochastic path integral representation of counting statistics in semi-classical systems. The formalism is introduced on the simple case of a single chaotic cavity with two quantum point contacts, and then further generalized to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Pilgram , A. N. Jordan , E. V. Sukhorukov , M. Buttiker

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

A current can be induced in a closed device by changing control parameters. The amount $Q$ of particles that are transported via a path of motion, is characterized by its expectation value $<Q>$, and by its variance $Var(Q)$. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 Maya Chuchem , Doron Cohen

We study the current statistics in normal diffusive conductors in contact with a superconductor. Using an extension of the Keldysh Green's function method we are able to find the full distribution of charge transfers for all temperatures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

We discuss the problem of full counting statistics for periodic pumping. The probability generating function is usually defined on a circle of the "physical" values of the counting parameter, with its periodicity corresponding to charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Dmitri A. Ivanov , Alexander G. Abanov

We consider a bipartite quantum conductor and discuss the joint probability distribution of particle number in a subsystem and the self-information associated with the reduced density matrix of the subsystem. By extending the multi-contour…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Yasuhiro Utsumi

We present measurements of the time-dependent fluctuations in electrical current in a voltage-biased tunnel junction. We were able to simultaneously extract the first three moments of the tunnel current counting statistics. Detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 Yu. Bomze , G. Gershon , D. Shovkun , L. S. Levitov , M. Reznikov

We study the full probability distribution of the charge transmitted through a mesoscopic diffusive conductor during a measurement time T. We have considered a semi-classical model, with an exclusion principle in a discretized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. -E. Roche , B. Doucot

The distribution function of transmitted charge through a double-barrier junction is studied at zero temperature and at small applied voltage. Both a semiclassical model, in which the transport is described by jump rates, and a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. M. de Jong

We discuss the Full Counting Statistics of non-commuting variables with the measurement of successive spin counts in non-collinear directions taken as an example. We show that owing to an irreducible detector back-action, the FCS in this…

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

We consider monitored quantum systems with a global conserved charge, and ask how efficiently an observer ("eavesdropper") can learn the global charge of such systems from local projective measurements. We find phase transitions as a…

We present here a quantum mechanical framework for defining the statistics of measurements of time integrals of A(t), A(t) being a quantum mechanical variable. This is a generalization of the so-called full counting statistics proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Nazarov , M. Kindermann