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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Electronic noise and fluctuations in solids
TL;DR: A comprehensive and complete review of flicker (1/f) noise in the literature can be found in this paper, focusing on the physics of electronic fluctuations (noise) in solids.