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We analyze the transport properties of a semiconductor based bilayer system under non-equilibrium conditions with special emphasis on the charge transfer statistics in the regime dominated by the exciton transport. We consider two different…

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The influence of fluctuating conductivity on the coefficients known from the mean-field electrodynamics is considered. If the conductivity fluctuations are assumed as uncorrelated with the turbulent velocity field then only the effective…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 G. Rüdiger , M. Küker , P. J. Käpylä

A theory of transverse electron transport coupled with heat transfer in semiconductor thin films is developed conceptually modeling structures of modern electronics. The transverse currents generate Joule heat with positive feedback through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-05 V. G. Karpov

In analogy with quantum optics, short time correlations of the current fluctuations are used to characterize an on-demand electron source consisting of a quantum dot connected to a conductor via a tunable tunnel barrier. We observe a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Mahé , F. D. Parmentier , E. Bocquillon , J. -M. Berroir , D. C. Glattli , T. Kontos , B. Plaçais , G. Fève , A. Cavanna , Y. Jin

Circulating currents in windings refer to unwanted electrical currents flowing between the parallel conductors of a winding. These currents arise due to several phenomena such as asymmetries, imperfections in the winding layout, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Taha El Hajji , Antti Lehikoinen , Anouar Belahcen

Nonequilibrium physics of random events, or fluctuations, is a unique fingerprint of a given system. Here we demonstrate that in noninteracting systems, whose dynamics is driven by Majorana states, the effective charge $e^*$, characterizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 Sergey Smirnov

Voltages parallel and transverse to electric current in slightly inhomogeneous superconductors can contain components proportional to the field and temperature derivatives of the longitudinal and Hall resistivities. We show that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Segal , M. Karpovski , A. Gerber

Electronic quantum effects in disordered conductors are controlled by the dephasing rate of conduction electrons. This rate is expected to vanish with the temperature. We consider the very intriguing recently reported apparent saturation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoseph Imry , Hidetoshi Fukuyama , Peter Schwab

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…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rangan Lahiri

We consider a measurement of finite-frequency current fluctuations, using a resonance circuit as a model for the detector. We arrive at an expression for the measurable response in terms of the current-current correlators which differs from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 G. B. Lesovik , R. Loosen

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

We study the steady-state current in a minimal model for a quantum dot dominated by charge fluctuations and analytically describe the time evolution into this state. The current is driven by a finite bias voltage V across the dot, and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-08 C. Karrasch , S. Andergassen , M. Pletyukhov , D. Schuricht , L. Borda , V. Meden , H. Schoeller

Employing a real time effective action formalism we analyze electron transport and current fluctuations in comparatively short coherent conductors in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We demonstrate that, while Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri S. Golubev , Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

The effect of thermal structural fluctuations on the modulation of the transfer integrals between close molecules is studied using a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemical calculations of the transfer integral.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Troisi , Giorgio Orlandi

We report the statistical properties of the fluctuations of the energy flux in an electronic RC circuit driven with a stochastic voltage. The fluctuations of the power injected in the circuit are measured as a function of the damping rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-06 Claudio Falcón , Eric Falcon

We investigate the modification of the intrinsic carrier noise spectral density induced in low-doped semiconductor materials by an external correlated noise source added to the driving high-frequency periodic electric field. A Monte Carlo…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-07 D. Persano Adorno , N. Pizzolato , B. Spagnolo

The Boltzmann distribution of electrons poses a fundamental barrier to lowering energy dissipation in conventional electronics, often termed as Boltzmann Tyranny. Negative capacitance in ferroelectric materials, which stems from the stored…

We investigate analytically the motion of underdamped particles subject to a deterministic periodic potential and a periodic temperature. Despite the fact that an underamped particle experiences the temperature oscillation many times in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. M. Blanter , M. Buttiker

We present a theory for the nonequilibrium current in a mesoscopic Josephson junction which is coupled to a normal electron reservoir, and apply it to a chaotic junction. Large sample-to-sample fluctuations of the critical current $I_{\rm…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Samuelsson , H. Schomerus

Our experiments show that for two or more pieces of a wire, of different lengths in general, combined in parallel and connected to a dc source, the current ratio evolves towards unity as the combination is cooled to the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Sarangi , S. P. Chockalingam , Raghav G Mavinkurve , S. V. Bhat , N. Kumar