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Current fluctuations are studied in a mesoscopic conductor using non-equilibrium Keldysh technique. We derive a general expression for the fluctuations in the presence of a time dependent voltage, valid for arbitrary relation between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Altshuler , L. S. Levitov , A. Yu. Yakovets

We develop a numerically exact scheme for resumming certain classes of Feynman diagrams in the self-consistent perturbation expansion for the electron and magnon self-energies in the nonequilibrium Green function formalism applied to a…

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We investigate the effect of electron-electron interactions on the conductance of quasi one-dimensional systems without potential scattering. For a finite temperature or system length, the short-range interaction is not renormalized to 0,…

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We investigate a superconducting single-electron transistor capacitively coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator and focus on the double Josephson quasiparticle resonance. The existence of two coherent Cooper pair tunneling events is shown…

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We study Coulomb charging effects for transport through a topologically nontrivial superconducting wire, where Majorana bound states are present at the interface to normal-conducting leads. We construct the general Keldysh functional…

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The transport properties on the two-dimensional surface of coupled multilayer heterostructures are studied in the integer quantum Hall states. We emphasize the criticality of the surface state and the phase coherent transport properties in…

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A discrete charge transfer in a small tunnel junction where Coulomb interactions are important can excite electron-hole pairs near the Fermi level. We use a simple model to study the associated nonequilibrium properties and found two novel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Guinea , M. Ueda

We examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on transport between edge states in a multilayer integer quantum Hall system. The edge states of such a system, coupled by interlayer tunneling, form a two-dimensional, chiral metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

We study the energy relaxation of quasiparticles in voltage biased mesoscopic wires in presence of magnetic impurities. The renormalization of the exchange interaction of Kondo impurities coupled to conduction electrons is extended to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Georg Goeppert , Hermann Grabert

We evaluate the full current statistics (FCS) in the low dimensional (1D and 2D) diffusive conductors in the incoherent regime, $eV\gg E_{\rm Th}=D/L^2$, $E_{\rm Th}$ being the Thouless energy. It is shown that Coulomb interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitry A. Bagrets

The quantum conductance of the single-electron tunneling (SET) transistor is investigated in this paper by the functional integral approach. The formalism is valid for arbitrary tunnel resistance of the junctions forming the SET transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiaohui Wang

Using recent mathematical advances, a geometric approach to rare noise-driven transition events in nonequilibrium systems is given, and an algorithm for computing the maximum likelihood transition curve is generalized to the case of…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-19 Matthias Heymann , Stephen W. Teitsworth , Jonathan C. Mattingly

We present a method for investigating the steady-state transport properties of one-dimensional correlated quantum systems. Using a procedure based on our analysis of finite-size effects in a related classical model (LC line) we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-28 M. Einhellinger , A. Cojuhovschi , E. Jeckelmann

We investigate the impact of introducing Majorana bound states, formed by a proximitized semiconducting nanowire in the topological regime, into a current biased capacitive Josephson junction, thereby adding delocalized states below the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Ian J. van Beek , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Bernd Braunecker

We present a general theory for the equilibrium current distribution in an interacting two-dimensional electron gas subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, and confined by a potential that varies slowly on the scale of the magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael R. Geller , Giovanni Vignale

We use self-consistent quantum transport theory to investigate the influence of electron-electron interactions on interlayer transport in semiconductor electron bilayers in the absence of an external magnetic field. We conclude that, even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Youngseok Kim , Allan H. MacDonald , Matthew J. Gilbert

We study non-Gaussian out-of-equilibrium current fluctuations in a mesoscopic NSN circuit at the point of a superconducting phase transition. The setup consists of a voltage-biased thin film nanobridge superconductor (S) connected to two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Levchenko

We discuss intrinsic mechanisms of nonequilibrium excess noise in superconducting devices and transition edge sensors. In particular, we present an overview of fluctuation-driven contributions to the current noise in the vicinity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Juhun Kwak , Emil Pellett , Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

The quasi-stationary nonequilibrium distribution function of an independent electron gas interacting with a medium, which is at local thermal equilibrium, can be obtained by entropy production rate minimization, subject to constraints of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-18 Thomas Christen