Residence time statistics for $N$ blinking quantum dots and other stochastic processes
Statistical Mechanics
2013-05-29 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We present a study of residence time statistics for blinking quantum dots. With numerical simulations and exact calculations we show sharp transitions for a critical number of dots. In contrast to expectation the fluctuations in the limit of are non-trivial. Besides quantum dots our work describes residence time statistics in several other many particle systems for example Brownian particles. Our work provides a natural framework to detect non-ergodic kinetics from measurements of many blinking chromophores, without the need to reach the single molecule limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.1142,
title = {Residence time statistics for $N$ blinking quantum dots and other stochastic processes},
author = {S. Burov and E. Barkai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1142},
year = {2013}
}