Shot noise in mesoscopic conductors
TLDR
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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Current fluctuations in a single tunnel junction
Hyun-Woo Lee,Leonid Levitov +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the two fluctuations have different noise spectra, and that the relation between them is nontrivial.
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Long-range Coulomb interaction and frequency dependence of shot noise in mesoscopic diffusive contacts
TL;DR: In this article, the frequency dependence of shot noise in mesoscopic diffusive contacts is calculated with account taken of long-range Coulomb interaction and external screening, and the high frequency noise tends to the full classical value for long and narrow contacts because of strong screening by the surrounding medium.
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Electron-number statistics and shot-noise suppression by Coulomb correlation in nondegenerate ballistic transport
TL;DR: In this paper, the statistical properties of an electron flow injected with a Poissonian distribution and transmitted under the ballistic regime in the presence of long-range Coulomb interaction are investigated.
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Shot noise in diffusive conductors: A quantitative analysis of electron-phonon interaction effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of electron energy relaxation via their interaction with phonons, generally in presence of electron-electron interaction, on shot noise in diffusive conductors were quantitatively analyzed.
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Low-temperature conduction and DC current noise in a quantum wire with impurity
TL;DR: In this paper, the nonlinear conductance for tunnelling through an impurity in a Luttinger liquid and the nonequilibrium DC current noise are calculated exactly for low temperatures.