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TT: Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 26: Transport - Poster Session

TT 26.25: Poster

Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 14:30–18:30, P1

Frequency dependence of full counting statistics in AC-biased mesoscopic conductors — •Dmitry Bagrets¹ and Fabio Pistolesi² — ¹Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany — ²Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés, CNRS-UJF B.P. 166, F-38042 Grenoble, France

We develop a theory to obtain the current noise and the full counting statistics of charge transfer for AC biased mesoscopic conductors. We illustrate the theory by considering two specific examples: a diffusive wire and a chaotic quantum dot. We find that all cumulants of current fluctuations depend on the frequency Ω of the external AC field on the scale of the inverse diffusion time through the structure. This dependence stems from the multiple photon absorption processes and disappears when the AC voltage amplitude V is much smaller than ℏ Ω/e (e being the electron charge). The detection of the frequency dependence of the second cumulant, the current noise, is within reach of present experimental technology.