Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2001-12-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
9 pages, 6 figures. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.66.245423
We present a theoretical investigation of shot-noise properties in nondegenerate elastic diffusive conductors. Both Monte Carlo simulations and analytical approaches are used. Two new phenomena are found: (i) the display of enhanced shot noise for given energy dependences of the scattering time, and (ii) the recovery of full shot noise for asymptotic high applied bias. The first phenomenon is associated with the onset of negative differential conductivity in energy space that drives the system towards a dynamical electrical instability in excellent agreement with analytical predictions. The enhancement is found to be strongly amplified when the dimensionality in momentum space is lowered from 3 to 2 dimensions. The second phenomenon is due to the suppression of the effects of long range Coulomb correlations that takes place when the transit time becomes the shortest time scale in the system, and is common to both elastic and inelastic nondegenerate diffusive conductors. These phenomena shed new light in the understanding of the anomalous behavior of shot noise in mesoscopic conductors, which is a signature of correlations among different current pulses.
Gomila Gabriel
Gonzalez Tame
Reggiani Letizia
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