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We study a shot noise of a wide channel gated high-frequency transistor at temperature of 4.2K near pinch-off. In this regime, a transition from the metallic to the insulating state is expected to occur, accompanied by the increase of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. S. Khrapai , D. V. Shovkun

In the literature, the study of electron transport in quantum devices is mainly devoted to DC properties. The fluctuations of the electrical current around these DC values, the so-called quantum noise, are much less analyzed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Damiano Marian , Enrique Colomés , Zhen Zhan , Xavier Oriols

We calculate the fluctuating voltage V(t) over a conductor driven out of equilibrium by a current source. This is the dual of the shot noise problem of current fluctuations I(t) in a voltage-biased circuit. In the single-channel case the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kindermann , Yu. V. Nazarov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

The quantum indeterminacy caused by non-commutativity of observables at different times sets a lower bound on the voltage noise power spectrum in any conducting material. This bound is calculated explicitly in the case of semiconductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Kirill A. Kazakov

We report simultaneous measurement of shot noise and dc transport in a quantum point contact as a function of source-drain bias, gate voltage, and in-plane magnetic field. Shot noise at zero field exhibits an asymmetry related to the 0.7…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 L. DiCarlo , Y. Zhang , D. T. McClure , D. J. Reilly , C. M. Marcus , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We present an experimental procedure for obtaining the conduction channels of low-dimensional conductors based on shot noise measurements. The transmission coefficient for each channel is determined numerically from the measured conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Ran Vardimon , Marina Klionsky , Oren Tal

Current fluctuations related to the discreteness of charge passing through small constrictions are termed shot noise. This unavoidable noise provides both advantages - being a direct measurement of the transmitted particles' charge, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Idan Tamir , Verena Caspari , Daniela Rolf , Christian Lotze , Katharina J. Franke

Shot noise encodes additional information not directly inferable from simple electronic transport measurements. Previous measurements in atomic-scale metal junctions at cryogenic temperatures have shown suppression of the shot noise at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 P. J. Wheeler , J. N. Russom , K. Evans , N. S. King , D. Natelson

We observe the suppression of the finite frequency shot-noise produced by a voltage biased tunnel junction due to its interaction with a single electromagnetic mode of high impedance. The tunnel junction is embedded in a quarter wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 C. Altimiras , O. Parlavecchio , P. Joyez , D. Vion , P. Roche , D. Esteve , F. Portier

Mesoscopic systems possess shot noise in their currents due to the quantization of the conducting quasiparticles. Measurements of this shot noise are useful to study phenomena that do not manifest themselves in standard conductance or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Austin Marga , Venkat Chandrasekhar

We examine an effect of acoustic phonon scattering on an electric conductivity of single-component molecular conductor [Pd(dddt)$_2$] (dddt = 5,6-dihydro-1,4-dithiin-2,3-dithiolate) with a half-filled band by applying the previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-30 Yoshikazu Suzumura , Reizo Kato , Masao Ogata

We present a theoretical analysis of the shot noise in d-wave/d-wave contacts with arbitrary transparency, including the contribution of multiple Andreev reflections. The multiple charge quanta transferred in these processes are revealed as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Cuevas , M. Fogelstrom

As is well known, the fluctuations from a stable stationary nonequilibrium state are described by a linearized nonhomogeneous Boltzmann-Langevin equation. The stationary state itself may be described by a nonlinear Boltzmann equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. L. Gurevich , M. I. Muradov

We analyze the shot noise in a voltage biased superconducting quantum point-contact. Results are presented for the single channel case with arbitrary transmission. In the limit of very low transmission it is found that the effective charge,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Cuevas , A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati

Shot noise, originating from the discrete nature of electric charge, is generated by scattering processes. Shot-noise measurements have revealed microscopic charge dynamics in various quantum transport phenomena. In particular, beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Kensuke Kobayashi , Masayuki Hashisaka

The shot noise produced by tunneling of electrons and holes into a double dot system incorporated inside a p-i-n junction is investigated theoretically. The enhancement of the shot noise is shown to originate from the entangled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. N. Chen , T. Brandes , C. M. Li , D. S. Chuu

We propose a two-terminal method to measure shot noise in mesoscopic systems based on an instability in the current-voltage characteristic of an on-chip detector. The microscopic noise drives the instability, which leads to random switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew N. Jordan , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We study the stationary probability distribution of a system driven by shot noise. We find that, both in the overdamped and underdamped regime, the coordinate distribution displays power-law singularities in its central part. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Akihisa Ichiki , Yukihiro Tadokoro , M. I. Dykman

We report our studies of the shot noise spectrum in tunneling through an interacting quantum dot when an additional single-level quantum dot without tunnel coupling to leads is coherently side-connected to it. We show that the…

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