Modeling rectification effects in mesoscopic superconducting devices

We study thermal fluctuations and capacitive effects on small Josephson Junction Rings (JJR) that mimics the rectification phenomena recently observed in triangular shaped mesoscopic superconductors, due to the superposition of the field induced persistent current with the bias current. At finite temperature we predicted that the amplitude of the rectified signal depends strongly on the current contacts configuration on the JJR, in coincidence with experiments. In addition, we analyze the range of parameters where a closed loop of capacitive junctions is an appropriate model to explain the experimental observations. We conclude that the closed loop of weak links, a JJR, is a simple, robust and good model to explain the observed voltage rectification effects on mesoscopic superconducting samples for a wide range of temperature.     

Electron waiting times in mesoscopic conductors

Electron transport in mesoscopic conductors has traditionally involved investigations of the mean current and the fluctuations of the current. A complementary view on charge transport is provided by the distribution of waiting times between charge carriers, but a proper theoretical framework for coherent electronic systems has so far been lacking. Here we develop a quantum theory of electron waiting times in mesoscopic conductors expressed by a compact determinant formula. We illustrate our methodology by calculating the waiting time distribution for a quantum point contact and find a crossover from Wigner-Dyson statistics at full transmission to Poisson statistics close to pinch-off. Even when the low-frequency transport is noiseless, the electrons are not equally spaced in time due to their inherent wave nature. We discuss the implications for renewal theory in mesoscopic systems and point out several analogies with level spacing statistics and random matrix theory.     

RLC介观电路的量子化研究

通过正则变换,应用费恩曼路径积分方法,得出了RLC介观电路的严格波函数,并进一步讨论了电路中电荷和广义电流的量子涨落.     

Kondo effect and mesoscopic fluctuations

Two important themes in nanoscale physics in the last two decades are correlations between electrons and mesoscopic fluctuations. Here we review our recent work on the intersection of these two themes. The setting is the Kondo effect, a paradigmatic example of correlated electron physics, in a nanoscale system with mesoscopic fluctuations; in particular, we consider a small quantum dot coupled to a finite reservoir (which itself may be a large quantum dot). We discuss three aspects of this problem. First, in the high-temperature regime, we argue that a Kondo temperature T _k which takes into account the mesoscopic fluctuations is a relevant concept: for instance, physical properties are universal functions of T/T _k. Secondly, when the temperature is much less than the mean level spacing due to confinement, we characterize a natural cross-over from weak to strong coupling. This strong coupling regime is itself characterized by well-defined single-particle levels, as one can see from a Nozières Fermi-liquid theory argument. Finally, using a mean-field technique, we connect the mesoscopic fluctuations of the quasiparticles in the weak coupling regime to those at strong coupling.     

Magnetic-field asymmetry of nonlinear mesoscopic transport

We investigate departures of the Onsager relations in the nonlinear regime of electronic transport through mesoscopic systems. We show that the nonlinear current-voltage characteristic is not an even function of the magnetic field due only to the magnetic-field dependence of the screening potential within the conductor. We illustrate this result for two types of conductors: A quantum Hall bar with an antidot and a chaotic cavity connected to quantum point contacts. For the chaotic cavity we obtain through random matrix theory an asymmetry in the fluctuations of the nonlinear conductance that vanishes rapidly with the size of the contacts.     

用热场动力学理论研究介观电路的Wigner函数

利用热场动力学及相干热态表象理论,重构了有限温度下介观RLC电路的Wigner函数,研究了有限温度下介观RLC电路的量子涨落.借助于Weyl-Wigner理论讨论了有限温度下介观RLC电路Wigner函数的边缘分布,并进一步阐明了Wigner函数边缘分布统计平均的物理意义.结果表明: 有限温度下介观RLC电路中电荷和电流的量子涨落随着温度和电阻值的增加而增加,回路中的电荷和电流之间存在着压缩效应,这种量子效应是由于系统零点振动的涨落而引起的; 有限温度下介观RLC电路Wigner函数边缘分布的统计平均正好是储存在介观RLC电路中电容和电感上的能量.     

用热场动力学理论研究介观电路的Wigner函数

利用热场动力学及相干热态表象理论,重构了有限温度下介观RLC电路的Wigner函数,研究了有限温度下介观RLC电路的量子涨落.借助于Weyl-Wigner理论讨论了有限温度下介观RLC电路Wigner函数的边缘分布,并进一步阐明了Wigner函数边缘分布统计平均的物理意义.结果表明:有限温度下介观RLC电路中电荷和电流的量子涨落随着温度和电阻值的增加而增加,回路中的电荷和电流之间存在着压缩效应,这种量子效应是由于系统零点振动的涨落而引起的;有限温度下介观RLC电路Wigner函数边缘分布的统计平均正好是储存在介观RLC电路中电容和电感上的能量.     

Conditional spin counting statistics as a probe of Coulomb interaction and spin-resolved bunching

Full counting statistics is a powerful tool to characterize the noise and correlations in transport through mesoscopic systems. In this work, we propose the theory of conditional spin counting statistics, i.e., the statistical fluctuations of spin-up (down) current given the observation of the spin-down (up) current. In the context of transport through a single quantum dot, it is demonstrated that a strong Coulomb interaction leads to a conditional spin counting statistics that exhibits a substantial change in comparison to that without Coulomb repulsion. It thus can be served as an effective way to probe the Coulomb interactions in mesoscopic transport systems. In case of spin polarized transport, it is further shown that the conditional spin counting statistics offers a transparent tool to reveal the spin-resolved bunching behavior.     

Mesoscopic fluctuations of the Josephson current of an S-I-S junction with weak structural disorder

It is shown that in the range of tunneling resonance energies of an S-I-S (superconductor-insulator-superconductor) junction with weak (low impurity concentrations) structural disorder in the I-layer, the average critical current and the magnitude of its mesoscopic fluctuations are determined by tunneling along quantum resonance-percolation trajectories. For a “small” junction situated in a parallel magnetic field at temperature T = 0 conditions for smallness of the mesoscopic fluctuations are obtained and an estimate is made of the range of parameters in which the resonance mechanism for supercurrent propagation predominates.     

Quantum noise frequency correlations of multiply scattered light

Frequency correlations in multiply scattered light that are present in quantum fluctuations are investigated. The speckle correlations for quantum and classical noise are compared and are found to depend markedly differently on optical frequency, which was confirmed in a recent experiment. Furthermore, novel mesoscopic correlations are predicted that depend on the photon statistics of the incoming light.     

压缩真空态下介观耦合电路的量子涨落及电源对量子涨落的影响

通过对无耗耦合含源介观电路的量子化和哈密顿量的对角化,求出了耦合电路的能谱,研究了压缩真空态下介观电路中电荷、电流的量子涨落和电源对量子涨落的影响。     

Two-particle Aharonov-Bohm effect and entanglement in the electronic Hanbury Brown-Twiss setup

We analyze a Hanbury Brown-Twiss geometry in which particles are injected from two independent sources into a mesoscopic conductor in the quantum Hall regime. All partial waves end in different reservoirs without generating any single-particle interference; in particular, there is no single-particle Aharonov-Bohm effect. However, exchange effects lead to two-particle Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the zero-frequency current cross correlations. We demonstrate that this is related to two-particle orbital entanglement, detected via violation of a Bell inequality. The transport is along edge states and only adiabatic quantum point contacts and normal reservoirs are employed.     

耗散介观电容耦合电路的量子效应

对介观耗散电容耦合电路作阻尼谐振子处理,将其量子化,在此基础上研究电荷和电流在能量本征态下的量子涨落,并对其进行讨论.结果表明,每个回路的电荷、电流都存在量子涨落,且两回路的量子噪声是相互关联的. 关键词： 介观耗散电路 电容耦合 量子涨落     

非耗散介观含源电路的量子力学效应

本文对非耗散介观含源电路的量子力学效应进行了详细研究.导出了非耗散介观含源电路在压缩真空态下其电荷和电流的量子零点涨落,并得到了该电路在绝对零度时的量子噪音.     

有源介观LC电路的量子涨落

本文利用含时微扰论,研究了电源幅值较小时介观LC电路中电荷与电流的量子涨落。在确定的温度下,系统将处在混合态,进一步得到有限温度下含源介观LC电路的量子涨落。研究表明有源介观LC电路的量子涨落不仅与电路参数有关,还与时间和温度有关。     

Quantum Effect in a Diode Included Nonlinear Inductance-Capacitance Mesoscopic Circuit

The mesoscopic nonlinearinductance-capacitance circuit is a typical anharmonicoscillator, due to diodes included in the circuit. In this paper, using the advanced quantum theory of mesoscopic circuits, which based on the fundamental fact that the electric charge takes discrete value, the diode included mesoscopic circuit is firstly studied. Schrödinger equation of the system is a four-order difference equation in \hat{p} representation.Using the extended perturbative method, the detail energy spectrumand wave functions are obtained and verified, as an application ofthe results, the current quantum fluctuation in the ground state iscalculated. Diode is a basis component in a circuit, its quantization would popularize the quantum theory of mesoscopic circuits. The methods to solve the high order difference equation are helpful to the application of mesoscopic quantum theory.     

The Squeezing Effect in a Mesoscopic RLC Circuit

Using the path integral method we derive quantum wave function and quantum fluctuations of charge andcurrent in the mesoscopic RLC circuit. We find that the quantum fluctuation of charge decreases with time, oppositely,the quantum fluctuation of current increases with time monotonously. Therefore there is a squeezing effect in the circuit.If some more charge devices are used in the mesoscopic-damped circuit, the quantum noise can be reduced. We also findthat uncertainty relation of charge and current periodically varies with the period π/2 in the under-damped case.     

Chaotic scattering and transmission fluctuations

We discuss the phenomenon of chaotic scattering and its application in the study of transmission of electrons in mesoscopic devices as well as the transmission of microwaves through junctions. We show that the fact that the ray optics (classical dynamics) is chaotic, implies fluctuations in the observed transmission coefficients, whose statistics is determined by the theory of random matrices. We also show how the classical distribution functions which reflect the chaotic nature of the classical dynamics, determine the dependence of the correlations observed in the fluctuating transmission coefficients on external parameters. The time domain properties of chaotic scattering systems are also examined, and are shown to depend on the chaotic nature of the classical dynamics, together with a wave mechanical enhancement in time reversal invariant systems. Finally, we study the role of absorption and discuss its effects on the transmission fluctuations and their statistics.     

压缩角对介观耦合电压缩效应的影响

从无耗散的电感耦合是电路的经典运动方程出发,研究了压缩真空态下介观电感耦合电路中电荷和电流的量子涨落;着重分析了压缩幅角参数对电荷和电流量子压缩效应的影响,结果表明：在任意幅角θ下,电荷或电流的量子涨落不是随压缩参数r增加而单调地减小,而是存在着一个极小值。