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TT: Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 26: Transport - Poster Session

TT 26.5: Poster

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

Electron transport and current fluctuations in short coherent conductors — •Dmitry Golubev, Artem Galaktionov, and Andrei Zaikin — Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Nanotechnologie, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany

Employing a real time effective action formalism we analyze electron transport and current fluctuations in comparatively short coherent conductors in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We demonstrate that, while Coulomb interaction tends to suppress electron transport, it may strongly enhance shot noise in scatterers with highly transparent conducting channels. This effect of excess noise is governed by the Coulomb gap observed in the current-voltage characteristics of such scatterers. Our results illustrate a direct relation between electron-electron interaction effects and current fluctuations in disordered mesoscopic conductors.