arXiv · cond-mat/0008413
Counting statistics of photons produced by electronic shot noise
Abstract
A theory is presented for the photodetection statistics of radiation produced by current fluctuations in a phase-coherent conductor. Deviations are found from the Poisson statistics that would result from a classical current. For detection in a narrow frequency interval, the photocount distribution has the negative-binomial form of black-body radiation if this frequency interval is less than the mean current in the conductor. When electronic localization sets in, a different type of super-Poissonian photon statistics results.
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C. W. J. Beenakker, H. Schomerus. 2000-09-04. Counting statistics of photons produced by electronic shot noise. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.700
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