arXiv · cond-mat/0102178
Direct link between Coulomb blockade and shot noise in a quantum coherent structure
Abstract
We analyze the current-voltage characteristic of a quantum conduction channel coupled to an electromagnetic environment of arbitrary frequency-dependent impedance. In the weak blockade regime the correction to the ohmic behavior is directly related to the channel current fluctuations vanishing at perfect transmission in the same way as shot noise. This relation can be generalized to describe the environmental Coulomb blockade in a generic mesoscopic conductor coupled to an external impedance, as the response of the latter to the current fluctuations in the former.
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A. Levy Yeyati, A. Martin-Rodero, D. Esteve, C. Urbina. 2001-02-09. Direct link between Coulomb blockade and shot noise in a quantum coherent structure. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.87.046802
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