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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…

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Spin transfer torque and spin pumping are central reciprocal phenomena in spintronics. These phenomena occur in hybrid systems of normal metals and magnets. Spin transfer is the conversion of spin currents in metals to a torque on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Arne Brataas

We calculate the spin current distribution function for a Kondo dot in two different regimes. In the exactly solvable Toulouse limit the linear response, zero temperature statistics of the spin transfer is trinomial, such that all the odd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-28 T. L. Schmidt , A. O. Gogolin , A. Komnik

We have measured the full counting statistics (FCS) of current fluctuations in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) by real-time detection of single electron tunneling with a quantum point contact (QPC). This method gives direct access to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Gustavsson , R. Leturcq , B. Simovic , R. Schleser , T. Ihn , P. Studerus , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

We present a theory for the full distribution of current fluctuations in incoherent diffusive superconducting junctions, subjected to a voltage bias. This theory of full counting statistics of incoherent multiple Andreev reflections is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Samuelsson

A complete characterization of quantum fluctuations in many-body systems is accessible through the full counting statistics. We present an exact computation of statistical properties of light in a basic model of light-matter interaction: a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Matouš Ringel , Vladimir Gritsev

We develop a theoretical description of transport through quantum dots connected to reservoirs via spin-polarized ballistic contacts. Rate equations account for spin accumulation inside the dot, electron-electron interactions, and…

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We describe how the effect of charge noise on a pair of spins coupled via the exchange interaction can be calculated by modelling charge fluctuations as a random telegraph noise process using probability density functions. We develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. J. Testolin , J. H. Cole , L. C. L. Hollenberg

Spin transfer - the transfer of angular momentum from spin-polarized electrical current to magnetic materials - has been extensively researched as an efficient mechanism for the electronic manipulation of the static and dynamic states in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrei Zholud , Ryan Freeman , Rongxing Cao , Ajit Srivastava , Sergei Urazhdin

We calculate the distribution of current fluctuations in two simple exclusion models. Although these models are classical, we recover even for small systems such as a simple or a double barrier, the same distibution of current as given by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe-E. Roche , Bernard Derrida , Benoit Doucot

Exchange fluctuation theorems (XFTs) describe a fundamental symmetry relation for particle and energy exchange between several systems. Here we study the XFTs of a Kitaev chain connected to two reservoirs in the same temperature but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Fan Zhang , H. T. Quan

In quantum transport through nanoscale devices, fluctuations arise from various sources: the discreteness of charge carriers, the statistical non-equilibrium that is required for device operation, and unavoidable quantum uncertainty. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Samuel L. Rudge , Daniel S. Kosov

We show a microscopic derivation of a quantum master equation with counting terms which describes the electron statistics. A localized spin behaves as a probe whose precession angle monitors the net electron current by the magnetic-moment…

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We discuss how threshold detectors can be used for a direct measurement of the full counting statistics (FCS) of current fluctuations and how to implement Jose phson junctions in this respect. We propose a scheme to characterize the full co…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Tobiska , Yu. V. Nazarov

Destructive interference of single-electron tunneling between three quantum dots can trap an electron in a coherent superposition of charge on two of the dots. Coupling to external charges causes decoherence of this superposition, and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 C. W. Groth , B. Michaelis , C. W. J. Beenakker

Effects related with deviations from thermodynamic equilibrium take a special place in the modern physics. Among those, non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum systems attract the highest interest. To date, the experimental technique of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 M. M. Glazov

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 measure the full distribution of current fluctuations in a single-electron transistor with a controllable bistability. The conductance switches randomly between two levels due to the tunneling of single electrons in a separate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 S. Singh , J. T. Peltonen , I. M. Khaymovich , J. V. Koski , C. Flindt , J. P. Pekola

We consider current shot noise and the full counting statistics in a chain of quantum dots which exhibits a continuous non-equilibrium phase transition as a function of the tunnel couplings of the chain with the electrodes. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Torsten Karzig , Felix von Oppen