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We investigate the behavior of the shot-noise power through quantum mechanical cavities in the semiclassical limit of small electronic wavelength. In the absence of impurity scattering, the Fano factor $F$, giving the noise to current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Philippe Jacquod , Robert S. Whitney

We show that in clean chaotic cavities the power of shot noise takes a universal form. Our predictions go beyond previous results from random-matrix theory, in covering the experimentally relevant case of few channels. Following a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Braun , Stefan Heusler , Sebastian Müller , Fritz Haake

We investigate transport properties of quantized chaotic systems in the short wavelength limit. We focus on non-coherent quantities such as the Drude conductance, its sample-to-sample fluctuations, shot-noise and the transmission spectrum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ph. Jacquod , Robert S. Whitney

Semiclassical methods can now explain many mesoscopic effects (shot-noise, conductance fluctuations, etc) in clean chaotic systems, such as chaotic quantum dots. In the deep classical limit (wavelength much less than system size) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Robert S. Whitney

We formulate a theory for shot noise in quantum nanoelectromechanical systems. As a specific example, the theory is applied to a quantum shuttle, and the zero-frequency noise, measured by the Fano factor F, is computed. F reaches very low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomas Novotny , Andrea Donarini , Christian Flindt , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We add simple tunnelling effects and ray-splitting into the recent trajectory-based semiclassical theory of quantum chaotic transport. We use this to derive the weak-localization correction to conductance and the shot-noise for a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-03 Robert S. Whitney

We investigate the shot noise for phase-coherent quantum transport in the chaotic-to-regular crossover regime. Employing the Modular Recursive Green's Function Method for both ballistic and disordered two-dimensional cavities we find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Aigner , S. Rotter , J. Burgdorfer

We present a semiclassical theory for the scattering matrix ${\cal S}$ of a chaotic ballistic cavity at finite Ehrenfest time. Using a phase-space representation coupled with a multi-bounce expansion, we show how the Liouville conservation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert S. Whitney , Ph. Jacquod

We investigate shot noise for quantum dots whose classical phase space consists of both regular and chaotic regions. The noise is systematically suppressed below the universal value of fully chaotic systems, by an amount which varies with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -S. Sim , H. Schomerus

We show that the breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law due to electron--electron scattering in diffusive spin valves may result in a strong suppression of the Fano factor that describes the ratio between shot noise and average current. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. T. Heikkila , K. E. Nagaev

Using the random matrix approach, we calculate analytically the average shot-noise power in a chaotic cavity at an arbitrary number of propagating modes (channels) in each of the two attached leads. A simple relationship between this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Savin , H. -J. Sommers

A recent theory is reviewed for the shot noise of coherent radiation propagating through a random medium. The Fano factor P/I (the ratio of the noise power and the mean transmitted current) is related to the scattering matrix of the medium.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , M. Patra

We consider universal shot noise in ballistic chaotic cavities from a semiclassical point of view and show that it is due to action correlations within certain groups of classical trajectories. Using quantum graphs as a model system we sum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Schanz , Mathias Puhlmann , Theo Geisel

States supported by chaotic open quantum systems fall into two categories: a majority showing instantaneous ballistic decay, and a set of quantum resonances of classically vanishing support in phase space. We present a theory describing…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Micklitz , A. Altland

We report the results of an analysis, based on a straightforward quantum-mechanical model, of shot noise suppression in a structure containing cascaded tunneling barriers. Our results exhibit a behavior that is in sharp contrast with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. Marconcini , M. Macucci , G. Iannaccone , B. Pellegrini

The progress in nanofabrication, measurement technology, and mesoscopic transport theory has been expanding the field of shot noise. Although a wave-packet approach to DC shot noise of independent electrons at finite temperature was offered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 Hiroyuki Inoue

We perform a numerical investigation of the effect of the disorder associated with randomly located impurities on shot noise in mesoscopic cavities. We show that such a disorder becomes dominant in determining the noise behavior when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 Paolo Marconcini , Massimo Totaro , Giovanni Basso , Massimo Macucci

We investigate the effect of dephasing/decoherence on quantum transport through open chaotic ballistic conductors in the semiclassical limit of small Fermi wavelength to system size ratio, $\lambda_F/L << 1$. We use the trajectory-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-17 Robert S. Whitney , Philippe Jacquod , Cyril Petitjean

Quantum effects are expected to disappear in the short-wavelength, semiclassical limit. As a matter of fact, recent investigations of transport through quantum chaotic systems have demonstrated the exponential suppression of the weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel Waltner , Jack Kuipers , Philippe Jacquod , Klaus Richter

We generalize the scattering theory of quantum shot noise to include the full spin-density matrix of electrons injected from a spin-filtering or ferromagnetic electrode into a quantum-coherent nanostructure governed by various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralitsa L. Dragomirova , Branislav K. Nikolic
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