Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 700–703 (2001)Counting Statistics of Photons Produced by Electronic Shot NoiseReceived 28 August 2000; published in the issue dated 22 January 2001 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 δω, the photocount distribution has the negative-binomial form of blackbody radiation if eδω is less than the mean current I̅ in the conductor. When electronic localization sets in, I̅ drops below eδω and a different type of super-Poissonian photon statistics results. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.700
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.700
PACS:
73.50.Td, 42.50.Ar, 42.50.Lc, 73.23.-b
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