2000
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.62.8184
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Suppression of non-Poissonian shot noise by Coulomb correlations in ballistic conductors

Abstract: We investigate the current injection into a ballistic conductor under the space-charge limited regime, when the distribution function of injected carriers is an arbitrary function of energy F c (). The analysis of the coupled kinetic and Poisson equations shows that the injected current fluctuations may be essentially suppressed by Coulomb correlations, and the suppression level is determined by the shape of F c (). This is in contrast to the time-averaged quantities: the mean current and the spatial profiles … Show more

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“…͑11͔͒, and the functions ␥ L,R (E) ͑energy-resolved shot-noise suppression factors 12 ͒ are obtained as…”
Section: Current and Noisementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…͑11͔͒, and the functions ␥ L,R (E) ͑energy-resolved shot-noise suppression factors 12 ͒ are obtained as…”
Section: Current and Noisementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The essential difference with the case of a fixed barrier is that the space-charge barrier fluctuates in time and produces longrange Coulomb correlations between the transmitted electrons that leads to the significant suppression of shot noise registered at the collector contact. The level of suppression depends drastically on the energy profile of the injected carriers, 12 while the time-averaged quantities ͑the mean current, conductance, etc.͒ do not. Therefore, one can use the shot-noise measurements to reveal the details in the energy profile.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The last two terms are the fluctuations induced by the self-consistent potential fluctuations, that give rise to the long-range Coulomb correlations. 27 To find those terms, we need to obtain ␦⌽ L or, equivalently, the self-consistent fluctuations of the barrier height in terms of the injected fluctuations ␦I L,R by solving the Poisson equation. This has been done in the Appendix B.…”
Section: Self-consistent Current and Voltage Fluctuations Generalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…) is the number of transversal modes in the degenerate zero-temperature limit, ϭ F /k B T is the reduced Fermi energy, ␣ϭ( F Ϫ⌽ L )/k B T is the parameter characterizing the position of the Fermi energy with respect to the potential barrier, and F k is the Fermi-Dirac integral of index k. 27 …”
Section: ͑13͒mentioning
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