The third moment of current fluctuations in a tunnel junction: experiments in the classical and quantum regimes

2010/01/18 by Reulet, B., Gabelli, J., Spietz, L. +1
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1001.3034

Abstract

We report the first experimental data of the third moment of current fluctuations in a tunnel junction. We show that both in the classical and quantum regimes (low or high frequency as compared to voltage), it is given by S_I³=e²I. We discuss environmental effects in both regimes.

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