Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2005-05-30
Fluctuations and Noise in Materials II, edited by P. Svedlindh, D. Popovic, and M.B.Weissmann, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5843 (
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
9 pages, 4 figures, conference proceedings of Fluctuations and Noise 2005, Austin, Texas
Scientific paper
10.1117/12.609352
The current noise of a voltage biased interacting quantum wire adiabatically connected to metallic leads is computed in presence of an impurity in the wire. We find that in the weak backscattering limit the Fano factor characterizing the ratio between shot noise and backscattering current crucially depends on the noise frequency relative to the ballistic frequency v_F/gL, where v_F is the Fermi velocity, g the Luttinger liquid interaction parameter, and L the length of the wire. In contrast to chiral Luttinger liquids, the noise is not only due to the Poissonian backscattering of fractionally charged quasiparticles at the impurity, but also depends on Andreev-type reflections of plasmons at the contacts, so that the frequency dependence of the noise needs to be analyzed to extract the fractional charge e*=e g of the bulk excitations. We show that the frequencies needed to see interaction effects in the Fano factor are within experimental reach.
Dolcini Fabrizio
Grabert Hermann
Safi Imen
Trauzettel Björn
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