We present a theory to describe the instantaneous emission rate of electron transport in quantumcoherent conductors. Due to the Pauli exclusion principle, electron emission events are usually correlated. This makes the emission rate is not a constant, but depends on the history of the emission process. To incorporate the history dependence, in this paper we characterize the emission rate via the conditional intensity function, which has been introduced in the theory of random point process. The conditional intensity function can be treated as the instantaneous emission rate observed by an ideal single-electron detector. We demonstrate the method by studying the instantaneous emission rate of a single-channel quantum point contact driven by a constant voltage. As the quantum point contact is opened up, we show that the emission process evolves from a simple Poisson process close to pinchoff to a non-renewal process at full transmission. These results show that the conditional intensity function can provide an intuitive and unified description of the emission process in quantum-coherent conductors.
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