Shot noise in mesoscopic conductors
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Theoretical and experimental work concerned with dynamic fluctuations has developed into a very active and fascinating subfield of mesoscopic physics as discussed by the authors, which can be used to obtain information on a system which is not available through conductance measurements.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2086 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shot noise & Quantum noise.read more
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Doubled shot noise in disordered normal-metal-superconductor junctions.
TL;DR: The low-frequency shot-noise power of a normal-metal\char21{}superconductor junction is studied for an arbitrary normal region and a formula is derived that expresses the shot- noise power in terms of the transmission eigenvalues of the normal region.
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Quantum shot noise in tunnel junctions
TL;DR: Calcul, a partir de la theorie microscopique, des fluctuations de courant et de tension dans une jonction tunnel normale dans un tunnel normal.
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Shot noise in mesoscopic diffusive conductors in the limit of strong electron-electron scattering.
V. I. Kozub,A. M. Rudin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the shot-noise power of a diffusive conductor in a presence of both strong inelastic electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering is calculated.
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Charge-relaxation and dwell time in the fluctuating admittance of a chaotic cavity
Piet W. Brouwer,Markus Büttiker +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the admittance of a chaotic quantum dot, capacitively coupled to a gate and connected to two electron reservoirs by multichannel ballistic point contacts.
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Supercurrent Noise in Quantum Point Contacts
Dmitri V. Averin,H. T. Imam +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages, and it is shown that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is a coherent process without fluctuations.