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We report measurements of the cross-correlation between current noise fluctuations in two capacitively coupled quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. The sign of the cross-spectral density is found to be tunable by gate voltage and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. T. McClure , L. DiCarlo , Y. Zhang , H. -A. Engel , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We investigate the conductance and zero-frequency shot noise of interacting, multi-level quantum dots coupled to leads. We observe that co-tunneling assisted sequential tunneling (CAST) processes play a dominant role in the transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-30 Jasmin Aghassi , Matthias H. Hettler , Gerd Schön

We consider charge transport through a nanoscopic object, e.g. single molecules, short nanotubes, or quantum dots, that is weakly coupled to metallic electrodes. We account for several levels of the molecule/quantum dot with level-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Thielmann , M. H. Hettler , J. König , G. Schön

We study intrinsic noise of current in a superconducting single-electron transistor, taking into account both coherence effects and Coulomb interaction near a Cooper-pair resonance. Due to this interplay, the statistics of tunneling events…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mahn-Soo Choi , Francesco Plastina , Rosario Fazio

We present time-resolved measurements of electron transport through a quantum dot. The measurements were performed using a nearby quantum point contact as a charge detector. The rates for tunneling through the two barriers connecting the…

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

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…

Spin-dependent transport through a multilevel quantum dot weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads is analyzed theoretically by means of the real-time diagrammatic technique. Both the sequential and cotunneling processes are taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Weymann , J. Barnas

Quantum dots (QDs) investigated through electron transport measurements often exhibit varying, state-dependent tunnel couplings to the leads. Under specific conditions, weakly coupled states can result in a strong suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 M. -C. Harabula , V. Ranjan , R. Haller , G. Fülöp , C. Schönenberger

We performed low temperature shot noise measurements in Superconductor (TiN) - strongly disordered normal metal (heavily doped Si) weakly transparent junctions. We show that the conductance has a maximum due to coherent multiple reflections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Lefloch , C. Hoffmann , M. Sanquer , D. Quirion

We study the crossover between thermal and shot-noise power in a chaotic quantum dot in the presence of non-ideal contacts at finite temperature. The result explicitly demonstrates that the temperature affect the suppression-amplification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 A. L. R. Barbosa , J. G. G. S. Ramos , D. Bazeia

Quantum shot noise probes the dynamics of charge transfers through a quantum conductor, reflecting whether quasiparticles flow across the conductor in a steady stream, or in syncopated bursts. We have performed high-sensitivity shot noise…

Based on our recently developed quantum transport theory in term of an exact master equation, the corresponding particle-number resolved ($n$-resolved) master equation and the related shot noise spectrum formalism covering the full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Jinshuang Jin , Wei-Min Zhang , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

We investigate the transition from sub-Poissonian to super-Poissonian values of the zero-temperature shot noise power of a resonant double barrier of macroscopic cross-section. This transition occurs for driving voltages which are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. M. Blanter , M. Buttiker

We study electron transport through a quantum dot, connected to non-magnetic leads, in a magnetic field. A super-Poissonian electron noise due to the effects of both interacting localized states and dynamic channel blockade is found when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shi-Hua Ouyang , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

We report measurements of current noise auto- and cross-correlation in a tunable quantum dot with two or three leads. As the Coulomb blockade is lifted at finite source-drain bias, the auto-correlation evolves from super-Poissonian to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Zhang , L. DiCarlo , D. T. McClure , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We present an explanation for the anomalous behavior in tunneling conductance and noise through a point contact between edge states in the Jain series $\nu=p/(2np+1)$, for extremely weak-backscattering and low temperatures [Y.C. Chung, M.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-03 Dario Ferraro , Alessandro Braggio , Matteo Merlo , Nicodemo Magnoli , Maura Sassetti

We consider the problem of shot noise in resonant tunneling through double quantum dots in the case of interacting particles. Using a many-body quantum mechanical description we evaluate the energy dependent transmission probability, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Brahim Elattari , S. A. Gurvitz

We investigate the zero-frequency shot noise of electronic tunneling through a single quantum dot (SQD) and coherently coupled quantum dots (CQD) taking into account the Coulomb interaction. Within Hartree-Fock approximation, the analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Bo Xiong , Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

The shot noise of current through a metallic double quantum dot structure exhibiting negative differential conductance is studied. We can exactly solve the master equation and derive an analytical expression of the spectral density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Lien Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

We study quantum-mechanically the frequency-dependent current noise of a tunnel-junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator. The cases of both DC and AC voltage bias are considered, as are the effects of intrinsic oscillator damping.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 A. A. Clerk , S. M. Girvin