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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 136602 (2004) [4 pages]

Asymmetric Quantum Shot Noise in Quantum Dots

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Hans-Andreas Engel and Daniel Loss
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

Received 3 December 2003; published 22 September 2004

We analyze the frequency-dependent noise of a current through a quantum dot which is coupled to Fermi leads and which is in the Coulomb blockade regime. We show that the asymmetric shot noise, as a function of detection frequency, shows steps and becomes super-Poissonian. This provides experimental access to the quantum fluctuations of the current. We present an exact calculation of the noise for a single dot level and a perturbative evaluation of the noise in Born approximation (sequential tunneling regime but without Markov approximation) for the general case of many levels with charging interaction.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.136602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.136602
PACS:
72.70.+m, 73.23.–b, 73.63.Kv, 85.35.–p