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We explore the motion of a classical particle in a symmetric potential with non-Gaussian skewed white noise. We show analytically and numerically that the presence of nonzero odd moments leads to a macroscopic current. For a noise with a…

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We analyse high-field current fluctuations in metallic systems by direct mapping of the Fermi-liquid correlations to the semiclassical nonequilibrium state. We give three applications. First, for bulk conductors, we show that there is a…

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

Quantum fluctuations in a current biased Josephson junction, described in terms of the RCSJ-model, are considered. The fluctuations of the voltage and phase across the junction are assumed to be initiated by equilibrium current fluctuations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Levinson

We analyze theoretically the dynamics of a single colloidal particle in an externally applied electric field. The thermal motions of microions lead to an anisotropic, nonequilibrium source of noise, pro- portional to the field, in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-03 Suropriya Saha , Sriram Ramaswamy

We study mesoscopic fluctuations in the supercurrent of a Josephson junction consisting of a topological insulator microbridge between two conventional superconductors. In the model, we account for the strong proximity effect when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Marcus Marinho , Guilherme Vieira , Tobias Micklitz , Georg Schwiete , Alex Levchenko

We employ a non-linear sigma model defined on a Keldysh contour to study the current and the current noise in a diffusive micro-bridge in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Out of equilibrium the fluctuation-dissipation theorem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-29 D. B. Gutman , Yuval Gefen

We consider a Josephson contact mediated by 1D chiral modes on a surface of a 3D topological insulator with superimposed superconducting and magnetic layers. The system represents an interferometer in which 1D chiral Majorana modes on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-06 Dmitriy S. Shapiro , Alexander D. Mirlin , Alexander Shnirman

The charge fluctuations of two nearby mesoscopic conductors coupled only via the long range Coulomb force are discussed and used to find the dephasing rate which one conductor exerts on the other. The discussion is based on a formulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Buttiker

The persistent current in a mesoscopic ring has a Gaussian distribution with small non-Gaussian corrections. Here we report a semiclassical calculation of the leading non-Gaussian correction, which is described by the three-point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Piet W. Brouwer , Jeroen Danon

Measurements of any property of a microscopic system are bound to show significant deviations from the average, due to thermal fluctuations. For time-integrated currents such as heat, work or entropy production in a steady state, it is in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-22 Sreekanth K Manikandan , Biswajit Das , Raunak Dey , Avijit Kundu , Ayan Banerjee , Supriya Krishnamurthy

We study inelastic effects on the electronic current noise in molecular junctions, due to the coupling between transport electrons and vibrational degrees of freedom. Using a full counting statistics approach based on the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Federica Haupt , Tomas Novotny , Wolfgang Belzig

We propose a highly-scalable method to compute the statistics of charge transfer in driven conductors. The framework can be applied in situations of non-zero temperature, strong coupling to terminals and in the presence of non-periodic…

We employ the macroscopic fluctuation theory to study fluctuations of integrated current in one-dimensional lattice gases with a step-like initial density profile. We analytically determine the variance of the current fluctuations for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. L. Krapivsky , Baruch Meerson

This is a study of phase-coherent conduction through a ballistic point contact with disordered leads. The disorder imposes mesoscopic (sample-to-sample) fluctuations and weak-localization corrections on the conductance, and also leads to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , J. A. Melsen

We study current fluctuations in lattice gases in the macroscopic limit extending the dynamic approach for density fluctuations developed in previous articles. More precisely, we establish a large deviation principle for a space-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

We investigate the time-dependent fluctuations of the electric current injected from a reservoir with a non-equilibrium spin accumulation into a mesoscopic conductor. We show how the current noise power directly reflects the magnitude of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-29 Jonathan Meair , Peter Stano , Philippe Jacquod

A theory is presented for low-frequency current and voltage correlators of a mesoscopic conductor embedded in a macroscopic electromagnetic environment. This Keldysh field theory evaluated at its saddle-point provides the microscopic…

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

We formulate a general path integral approach which describes statistics of current fluctuations in mesoscopic coherent conductors at arbitrary frequencies and in the presence of interactions. Applying this approach to the non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Golubev , A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

We investigate the current shot noise at a three terminal node in which one of the branches contains a noise generating source and the correlations are measured between the currents flowing through the other two branches. Interestingly, if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentin S. Rychkov , Markus Buttiker

Fluctuations of the current through a tunnel junction are measured using a Josephson junction. The current noise adds to the bias current of the Josephson junction and affects its switching out of the supercurrent branch. The experiment is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Q. Le Masne , H. Pothier , Norman O. Birge , C. Urbina , D. Esteve