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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150601 (2008) [4 pages]

Counting Statistics of Non-Markovian Quantum Stochastic Processes

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Christian Flindt1,2, Tomáš Novotný3, Alessandro Braggio4, Maura Sassetti4, and Antti-Pekka Jauho1,2
1Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 1100, 02015 HUT, Finland
2Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Nanotech, Building 345 East, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
3Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 12116 Prague, Czech Republic
4LAMIA-INFM-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy

Received 4 January 2008; revised 15 February 2008; published 17 April 2008

We derive a general expression for the cumulant generating function (CGF) of non-Markovian quantum stochastic transport processes. The long-time limit of the CGF is determined by a single dominating pole of the resolvent of the memory kernel from which we extract the zero-frequency cumulants of the current using a recursive scheme. The finite-frequency noise is expressed not only in terms of the resolvent, but also initial system-environment correlations. As an illustrative example we consider electron transport through a dissipative double quantum dot for which we study the effects of dissipation on the zero-frequency cumulants of high orders and the finite-frequency noise.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.150601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.150601
PACS:
05.70.Ln, 03.65.Yz, 72.70.+m, 73.23.Hk