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Magnetic molecules and nanomagnets can be used to influence the electronic transport in mesoscopic junction. In a magnetic field the precessional motion leads to resonances in the dc- and ac-transport properties of a nanocontact, in which…

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We present a theoretical study of current noise of a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. An arbitrary voltage is applied to the tunnel junction and electrons…

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We examine the spin current and the associated shot noise generated in a quantum dot connected to normal leads with zero bias voltage across the dot. The spin current is generated by spin flip transitions induced by a quantized…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ivana Djuric , Chris P. Search

We present the most complete scattering theory for noise in noninteracting case. The exact formula for spectral density of current fluctuations at finite frequency is presented in terms of scattering matrix for a coherent quantum conductor.…

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Spin-noise measurements can serve as direct probe for the microscopic decoherence mechanism of an electronic spin in semiconductor quantum dots (QD).We have calculated the spin-noise spectrum in the anisotropic central spin model using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Johannes Hackmann , Frithjof B. Anders

We review recent studies of the shot noise of spin-polarized charge currents and pure spin currents in multiterminal semiconductor nanostructures, while focusing on the effects brought by the intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-20 Branislav K. Nikolic , Ralitsa L. Dragomirova

We review our recent contributions on shot noise for entangled electrons and spin-polarized currents in novel mesoscopic geometries. We first discuss some of our recent proposals for electron entanglers involving a superconductor coupled to…

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In the theory of noise processes for mesoscopic conductors, the relationship between shot noise and hot-electron noise is absolutely fundamental to understanding the underlying microscopic fluctuations. From the vantage point of orthodox…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Das , F. Green

We describe a field-theoretic approach to calculate quantum shot noise in nanoscale conductors from first principles. Our starting point is the second-quantization field operator to calculate shot noise in terms of single quasi-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu-Chang Chen , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The shot noise in the electrical current through a ballistic chaotic quantum dot with N-channel point contacts is suppressed for N --> infinity, because of the transition from stochastic scattering of quantum wave packets to deterministic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ossipov , J. H. Bardarson , C. W. J. Beenakker , J. Tworzydlo , M. Titov

We extend our previous work on shot noise for entangled and spin polarized electrons in a beam-splitter geometry with spin-orbit (\textit{s-o}) interaction in one of the incoming leads (lead 1). Besides accounting for both the Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Carlos Egues , Guido Burkard , D. Saraga , John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

We propose an extension of the Landauer-Buttiker scattering theory to include effects of interaction in the active region of a mesoscopic conductor structure. The current expression obtained coincides with those derived by different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Nam Do , P. Dollfus , V. L. Nguyen

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

We study the effect of inelastic scattering on the spin entanglement detection and discrimination scheme proposed by Egues, Burkard, and Loss [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{89}, 176401 (2002)]. The finite-backscattering beam splitter geometry is…

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We develop a theory of spin noise in semiconductor nanowires considered as prospective elements for spintronics. In these structures spin-orbit coupling can be realized as a random function of coordinate correlated on the spatial scale of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

We present measurements of current noise in quantum point contacts as a function of source-drain bias, gate voltage, and in-plane magnetic field. At zero bias, Johnson noise provides a measure of the electron temperature. At finite bias,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. DiCarlo , Yiming Zhang , D. T. McClure , D. J. Reilly , C. M. Marcus , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

Spin currents may be generated by applying bias voltages V to the nanostructures even in the absence of spin-active ferromagnetic interfaces. Most theoretical proposals concentrate on a concrete spin-orbit interaction and on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuli V. Nazarov

We derive within a time-dependent scattering formalism expressions for both the current through ac-driven nanoscale conductors and its fluctuations. The results for the time-dependent current, its time average, and, above all, the driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sébastien Camalet , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi

We exploit the pumped spin-current and current noise spectra under equilibrium condition in a single quantum dot connected to two normal leads, as an electrical scheme for detection of the electron spin resonance (ESR) and decoherence. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei