Photon-assisted shot noise due to the charging effect in a quantum dot device |
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Authors: | Q Chen H -K Zhao |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, P.R. China |
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Abstract: | We have investigated the spectral density of shot noise for an ultra-small quantum dot(QD) system in the Coulomb blockade
regime when irradiated with microwave fields (MWFs) by employing a nonequilibrium Green’s function technique. The shot noise
is sensitive to Coulomb interaction, and the photon-assisted Coulomb blockade behaviour strongly modifies the mesoscopic transport.
We have calculated the first and second derivatives of shot noise in the strong and weak coupling regimes to compare the theoretical
results with existing experimental results. In the strong coupling regime, the first and second derivatives of shot noise
display Fano type peak-valley structures around the charging channel 2E
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due to Coulomb interaction. When the magnitudes of the MWFs are sufficiently large, the system displays channel blockade
due to photon irradiation. The photon-assisted and Coulomb blockade steps in the noise — as well as the resonant behaviour
in the differential noise — are smeared by increasing temperature. The Coulomb interaction suppresses the shot noise, but
the ac fields can either suppress the shot noise(balanced case) or enhance the shot noise(unbalanced case). The suppression
of shot noise caused by ac fields in the balanced case is greater than that caused by Coulomb interaction in our system. Super-Poissonian
shot noise may be induced due to the compound effects of strong Coulomb interaction and photon absorption-emission processes. |
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Keywords: | PACS" target="_blank">PACS 85 35 -p Nanoelectronic devices 73 23 -b Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems 72 10 Bg General formulation of transport theory 73 21 La Quantum dots |
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