2008/05/31 by Ines Safi, Inès Safi, Cristina Bena +1
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design #Graphene research and applications #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.78.205422
published as Physical Review B 78 (2008) 205422
openalex publication_date 2008/11/17 · arxiv created 2008/11/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We calculate the ac conductance and the finite-frequency nonsymmetrized noise in interacting quantum wires and single-wall carbon nanotubes in the presence of an impurity. We observe a strong asymmetry in the frequency spectrum of the nonsymmetrized excess noise, even in the presence of the metallic leads. We find that this asymmetry is proportional to the differential excess ac conductance of the system, defined as the difference between the ac differential conductances at finite and zero voltage, and thus disappears for a linear system. In the quantum regime, for temperatures much smaller than the frequency and the applied voltage, we find that the emission noise is exactly equal to the impurity partition noise. For the case of a weak impurity we expand our results for the ac conductance and the noise perturbatively. In particular, if the impurity is located in the middle of the wire or at one of the contacts, our calculations show that the noise exhibits oscillations with respect to frequency, whose period is directly related to the value of the interaction parameter g.