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We have derived a general formula describing current noise in multimode ballistic channels connecting source and drain electrodes with Fermi electron gas. In particular (at $eV\gg k_{B}T$), the expression describes the nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Naveh , A. N. Korotkov , K. K. Likharev

Current noise in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions is calculated within the scattering theory of multiple Andreev reflections (MAR). It is shown that the noise exhibits subharmonic gap singularities at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Naveh , D. V. Averin

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

Fluctuations pose fundamental limitations in making sensitive measurements, yet at the same time, noise unravels properties that are inaccessible at the level of the averaged signal. In electronic devices, shot noise arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Anqi Mu , Ofir Shein Lumbroso , Oren Tal , Dvira Segal

Analytic predictions for resonant transport in three generic structures are presented. For a structure comprising a normal (N) contact - normal dot (NDOT) - superconducting (S) contact, we predict that finite voltage, differential…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. R. Claughton , M. Leadbeater , C. J. Lambert , V. N. Prigodin

The magnetic excitations in the superconducting electron-doped cuprates are studied in the framework of spin-density-wave description. The superconducting resonance is a natural product of the superconductivity due to the opening of d-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-05 H. Y. Zhang , Y. Zhou , C. D. Gong , H. Q. Lin

We study the behavior of shot noise in resonant tunneling junctions far from equilibrium. Quantum-coherent elastic charge transport can be characterized by a transmission function, that is the probability for an incoming electron at a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Anqi Mu , Dvira Segal

We present a theoretical investigation of shot-noise properties in nondegenerate elastic diffusive conductors. Both Monte Carlo simulations and analytical approaches are used. Two new phenomena are found: (i) the display of enhanced shot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Gomila , T. Gonzalez , L. Reggiani

We study the influence of Born impurity scattering on the zero-energy Andreev bound states near the surface of a d-wave superconductor with and without an externally applied magnetic field. Without an external magnetic field we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-09-27 A. Zare , A. Markowsky , T. Dahm , N. Schopohl

The shot noise in tunneling experiments reflects the Poissonian nature of the tunneling process. The shot noise power is proportional to both the magnitude of the current and the effective charge of the carrier. Shot noise spectroscopy thus…

We present current noise measurements in a long diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junction in the low voltage regime, in which transport can be partially described in terms of coherent multiple Andreev reflections. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elsa Lhotel , Olivier Coupiac , François Lefloch , Hervé Courtois , Marc Sanquer

We study the physical properties of an $s$-wave -- normal metal -- $d$-wave junction in terms of the Andreev bound states in the normal metal layer. The phase dependence of bound states with different orientations leads to superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-15 Andrea Huck , Anne van Otterlo , Manfred Sigrist

We study differential shot noise in mesoscopic diffusive normal-superconducting (NS) heterostructures at finite voltages where nonlinear effects due to the superconducting proximity effect arise. A numerical scattering-matrix approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Markku P. V. Stenberg , Tero T. Heikkilä

In this paper, we carry out a theoretical analysis of the zero-frequency and finite-frequency shot noise in electron tunneling through a two-level interacting system connected to two leads, when a coherent coupling between the two levels is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivana Djuric , Bing Dong , H. L. Cui

This is a review of shot noise, the time-dependent fluctuations in the electrical current due to the discreteness of the electron charge, in small conductors. The shot-noise power can be smaller than that of a Poisson process as a result of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. J. M. de Jong , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study voltage-biased superconducting planar d-wave junctions for arbitrary transmission and arbitrary orientation of the order parameters of the superconductors. For a certain orientation of the superconductors the odd ac components…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Tomas Lofwander , Goran Johansson , Magnus Hurd , Goran Wendin

Intrinsic noise is known to be ubiquitous in Josephson junctions. We investigate a voltage biased superconducting tunnel junction including a very small number of pinholes - transport channels possessing a transmission coefficient close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 Georg Heinrich , F. K. Wilhelm

We present a theory for the differential shot noise, $dS/dV$, as measured via shot-noise scanning tunneling spectroscopy, and the differential conductance, $dI/dV$, for tunneling into Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in the putative topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-13 Ka Ho Wong , Eric Mascot , Vidya Madhavan , Dale J. Van Harlingen , Dirk K. Morr

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 prove the universality of shot-noise in multiterminal diffusive conductors of arbitrary shape and dimension for purely elastic scattering as well as for hot electrons. Using a Boltzmann-Langevin approach we reduce the calculation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Daniel Loss