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We study the non-equilibrium noise in mesoscopic diffusive wires hosting magnetic impurities. We find that the shot-noise to current ratio develops a peak at intermediate source-drain biases of the order of the Kondo temperature. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eran Lebanon , P. Coleman

We study nonlinear transport and non-equilibrium current noise in quasi-classical point contacts (PCs) defined in a low-density high-quality two-dimensional electron system in GaAs. At not too high bias voltages $V$ across the PC the noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 E. S. Tikhonov , M. Yu. Melnikov , D. V. Shovkun , L. Sorba , G. Biasiol , V. S. Khrapai

We study transport in coherent conductors driven by a time-periodic bias voltage. We present results of the charge and energy noise and complement them by a study of the mixed noise, namely the zero-frequency correlator between charge and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Francesca Battista , Federica Haupt , Janine Splettstoesser

Superconducting nanodevices such as qubits, resonators, and photodetectors, have revolutionized our capabilities for probing and controlling quantum phenomena. Nonequilibrium quasiparticles, which are broken Cooper pairs that cause…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Clare C. Yu , M. C. Goffage , Yifan Wang , A. Alase , M. C. Cassidy , S. N. Coppersmith

Mesoscopic low frequency noise in electrical characteristics of disordered conductors is a result of dynamic quantum interference pattern due to motion of defects. This has been firmly established by demonstrating the characteristic partial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Kostyantyn Kechedzhi

Quantum behavior of superconducting nanowires may essentially depend on the employed experimental setup. Here we investigate a setup that enables passing equilibrium supercurrent across an arbitrary segment of the wire without restricting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Alexey Radkevich , Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

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 a scattering theory description for the inelastic current noise in the presence of electron-vibration interactions. In this description, we specify elastic and inelastic scattering contributions to the shot noise by examining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Sejoong Kim

An extensive investigation of low frequency noise in single electron transistors as a function of gain is presented. Comparing the output noise with gain for a large number of bias points, it is found that the noise is dominated by external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Starmark , Torsten Henning , A. N. Korotkov , T. Claeson , P. Delsing

We study the noise of the cotunneling current through one or several tunnel-coupled quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. The various regimes of weak and strong, elastic and inelastic cotunneling are analyzed for quantum-dot systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Guido Burkard , Daniel Loss

We show that in disordered superconductors, at sufficiently low frequencies $\omega$, the coupling of TLS to external ac electric fields increases dramatically in the presence of a dc supercurrent. This giant enhancement manifests in all ac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-28 T. Liu , A. V. Andreev , B. Z. Spivak

Solid-state systems which mimic two-level atoms are being actively developed. Improving the quantum coherence of these systems, for instance spin qubits or single photon emitters using semiconductor quantum dots, involves dealing with…

We consider finite frequency noise in a mesoscopic system with arbitrary interactions, connected to many terminals kept at finite electrochemical potentials. We show that the excess noise, obtained by subtracting the noise at zero voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ines Safi

We present theoretical calculations and predictions for the shot noise in voltage biased junctions of $d_{x^2-y^2}$ superconductors and normal metal counter-electrodes. In the clean limit for the d-wave superconductor the shot noise…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomas Lofwander , Mikael Fogelstrom , J. A. Sauls

Weakly coupled semiconductor superlattices under dc voltage bias are nonlinear systems with many degrees of freedom whose nonlinearity is due to sequential tunneling of electrons. They may exhibit spontaneous chaos at room temperature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Luis L. Bonilla , Manuel Carretero , Emanuel Mompó

We consider the steady-state nonequilibrium behavior of mesoscopic superconducting wires connected to normal-metal reservoirs. Going beyond the diffusive limit, we utilize the quasiclassical theory and perform a self-consistent calculation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-22 Kevin Marc Seja , Tomas Löfwander

We analyze the noise in a multi-terminal multi-channel conductor under arbitrary time-dependent driving and subject to -- possibly large -- static potential and temperature biases. We show that the full out-of-equilibrium zero-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Ludovico Tesser , José Balduque , Janine Splettstoesser

The control and measurement of local non-equilibrium configurations is of utmost importance in applications on energy harvesting, thermoelectrics and heat management in nano-electronics. This challenging task can be achieved with the help…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 E. S. Tikhonov , D. V. Shovkun , D. Ercolani , F. Rossella , M. Rocci , L. Sorba , S. Roddaro , V. S. Khrapai

It is shown that the noise-limited charge sensitivity of a single-electron transistor using superconductors (of either $SISIS$ or $NISIN$ type) operating near the threshold of quasiparticle tunneling, can be considerably higher than that of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander N. Korotkov

Tunneling conductance spectroscopy in normal metal-superconductor junctions is an important tool for probing Andreev bound states in mesoscopic superconducting devices, such as Majorana nanowires. In an ideal superconducting device, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 André Melo , Chun-Xiao Liu , Piotr Rożek , Tómas Örn Rosdahl , Michael Wimmer