Dephasing and Measurement Efficiency via a Quantum Dot Detector

Details Dephasing and Measurement Efficiency via a Quantum Dot Detector Dephasing and Measurement Efficiency via a Quantum Dot Detector

2006-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601535v1

J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 75, 063707 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

7 pages, 3 figures

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We study charge detection and controlled dephasing of a mesoscopic system via a quantum dot detector (QDD), where the mesoscopic system and the QDD are capacitively coupled. The QDD is considered to have coherent resonant tunnelling via a single level. It is found that the dephasing rate is proportional to the square of the conductance of the QDD for the Breit-Wigner model, showing that the dephasing is completely different from the shot noise of the detector. The measurement rate, on the other hand, shows a dip near the resonance. Our findings are peculiar especially for a symmetric detector in the following aspect: The dephasing rate is maximum at resonance of the QDD where the detector conductance is insensitive to the charge state of the mesoscopic system. As a result, the efficiency of the detector shows a dip and vanishes at resonance, in contrast to the single-channel symmetric non-resonant detector that has always a maximum efficiency. We find that this difference originates from a very general property of the scattering matrix: The abrupt phase change exists in the scattering amplitudes in the presence of the symmetry, which is insensitive to the detector current but {\em stores} the information of the quantum state of the mesoscopic system.

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