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We study mesoscopic fluctuations of the differential capacitance of a dot connected to a lead by a single-mode quantum channel with adjustable conductance G. We show that the amplitude of the fluctuations reaches maximum at a partially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kaminski , I. L. Aleiner , L. I. Glazman

Recent experiments showed that the last, single channel conductance step in monatomic gold contacts exhibits significant fluctuations as a function of stretching. From simulations of a stretched gold nanowire linked to deformable tips, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Picaud , V. Pouthier , C. Girardet , E. Tosatti

Conductance fluctuation is usually unavoidable in graphene nanoribbons (GNR) due to the presence of disorder along its edges. By measuring the low-frequency noise in GNR devices, we find that the conductance fluctuation is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Guangyu Xu , Carlos M. Torres , Emil B. Song , Jianshi Tang , Jingwei Bai , Xiangfeng Duan , Yuegang Zhang , Kang L. Wang

We analyse in detail Mott's variable range hopping in one dimension, expanding on earlier work by Raikh and Ruzin. We show that the large conductance fluctuations in disordered insulators result from a subtle interplay between purely…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 François Ladieu , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

We develop a time dependent random matrix theory describing the influence of a time-dependent perturbation on mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in open quantum dots. The effect of external field is taken into account to all orders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim G. Vavilov , Igor L. Aleiner

Transport measurements normally provide a macroscopic, averaged view of the sample, so that disorder prevents the observation of fragile interaction induced states. Here, we demonstrate that transconductance fluctuations in a graphene field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-06 Dong Su Lee , Viera Skakalova , R. Thomas Weitz , Klaus von Klitzing , Jurgen H. Smet

We study a nonadiabatic effect on the conductances in the quantum Hall effect of two-dimensional electrons with a periodic potential. We found that the Hall and longitudinal conductances oscillate in time with a very large frequencies due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Manabu Machida , Naomichi Hatano , Jun Goryo

Near the superconducting phase transition, fluctuations significantly modify the electronic transport properties. Here we study the fluctuation corrections to the Hall conductivity in disordered films, extending previous derivations to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-30 Karen Michaeli , Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Motivated by recent experiments on the conductance fluctuations in mesoscopic integr quantum Hall systems, we consider a model in which the Coulomb interactions are incorporated into the picture of edge-state transport through a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -M. Ho

A detailed analysis of magneto-conductance fluctuations of quasiballistic gold-nanowires of various lengths is presented. We find that the variance $<(\Delta G)^2> = < (G(B)-G(B+\Delta B))^2>$ when analyzed for $\Delta B$ much smaller than…

We study fluctuations of conductance of two connected in series dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. The pattern of the fluctuations turns out to be extremely sensitive to a magnetic field. These conductance fluctuations also provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kaminski , L. I. Glazman

We have observed reproducible conductance fluctuations at low temperature in a small GaAs:Si wire driven across the Anderson transition by the application of a gate voltage. We analyse quantitatively the log-normal conductance statistics in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. Ladieu , D. Mailly , M. Sanquer

We evaluate a typical value of higher order cumulants (irreducible moments) of conductance fluctuations that could be extracted from magneto-conductance measurements in a single sample when an external magnetic field is swept over an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Tsyplyatyev , I. L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Igor V. Lerner

Quasiballistic 1D quantum wires are known to have a conductance of the order of 2e^2/h, with small sample-to-sample fluctuations. We present a study of the transconductance G_12 of two Coulomb-coupled quasiballistic wires, i.e., we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Asger Mortensen , Karsten Flensberg , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Temperature dependence and recombination behavior of trapped charge carriers in ZnCdSe/ZnSe multiple quantum wells are investigated employing surface acoustic waves. These weakly perturb the carrier system, but remain highly sensitive even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-11 D. A. Fuhrmann , H. J. Krenner , A. Wixforth , A. Curran , K. A. Prior , R. J. Warburton , J. Ebbecke

The conductance fluctuations of a metallic wire which is interrupted by a small tunnel junction has been explored experimentally. In this system, the bias voltage V, which drops almost completely inside the tunnel barrier, is used to probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexander van Oudenaarden , M. H. Devoret , E. H. Visscher , Yu. V. Nazarov , J. E. Mooij

We study conductance fluctuations in disordered quantum wires with unitary symmetry focusing on the case in which the number of conducting channels in one propagating direction is not equal to that in the opposite direction. We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yositake Takane , Katsunori Wakabayashi

The effect of fluctuations on the conductivity of ion channels is investigated. It is shown that modulation of the potential barrier at the selectivity site due to electrostatic amplification of charge fluctuations at the channel mouth…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. G. Luchinsky , R. Tindjong , I. Kaufman , P. V. E. McClintock , R. S. Eisenberg

We study numerically the edge magnetoconductance of a quantum spin Hall insulator in the presence of quenched nonmagnetic disorder. For a finite magnetic field B and disorder strength W on the order of the bulk gap E_g, the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-08 Joseph Maciejko , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study the effect of a single bistable scatterer on conductance of mesoscopic conductors in the crossover regime from open to closed systems. After the resistance of the contact between the metallic grain and bulk electrode exceeds the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Vladimir I. Fal'ko