Transition from sub-poissonian to super-poissonian shot noise in resonant quantum wells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 10217-10226

  Blanter, Y M ^a   Buttiker M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001425930     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.10217     Document Type: Article

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38. Instead of energies we could, alternatively, express our result in terms of time scales: (Formula presented) are the times of (noninteracting) electrons for escape to the left and right reservoirs, and (Formula presented) is an effective RC time of the resonant double-barrier structure.