Voltage and dephasing probes in mesoscopic conductors: A study of full-counting statistics
(2007) In Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 75(3).- Abstract
- Voltage and dephasing probes introduce incoherent inelastic and incoherent quasielastic scattering into a coherent mesoscopic conductor. We discuss in detail the concepts of voltage and dephasing probes and develop a full-counting statistics approach to investigate their effect on the transport statistics. The formalism is applied to several experimentally relevant examples. A comparison of different probe models and with procedures like phase averaging over an appropriate phase distribution shows that there is a perfect equivalence between the models for the case of one single-channel probe. Interestingly, the appropriate phase-distribution function is found to be uniform. A uniform distribution is provided by a chaotic cavity with a long... (More)
- Voltage and dephasing probes introduce incoherent inelastic and incoherent quasielastic scattering into a coherent mesoscopic conductor. We discuss in detail the concepts of voltage and dephasing probes and develop a full-counting statistics approach to investigate their effect on the transport statistics. The formalism is applied to several experimentally relevant examples. A comparison of different probe models and with procedures like phase averaging over an appropriate phase distribution shows that there is a perfect equivalence between the models for the case of one single-channel probe. Interestingly, the appropriate phase-distribution function is found to be uniform. A uniform distribution is provided by a chaotic cavity with a long dwell time. The dwell time of a chaotic cavity plays a role similar to the charge response time of a voltage or dephasing probe. For multichannel or multiple probes the transport statistics of voltage and dephasing probes differs and the equivalence with phase averaging is similarly lost. (Less)
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- Foerster, Heidi ; Samuelsson, Peter LU ; Pilgram, Sebastian and Buettiker, Markus
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- 2007
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- Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
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- 75
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- 3
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- American Physical Society
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- wos:000243895400122
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- 1098-0121
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- 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.035340
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- English
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