Quantum partition noise of photon-created electron-hole pairs

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Reydellet, L H ^a,c   Roche, P ^a   Glattli, D C ^a,c   Etienne, B ^b   Jin, Y ^b  

^a SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; FERMI LEVEL; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SHOT NOISE; STATISTICS;

BALLISTIC CONDUCTOR; PARTITION NOISE FANO FACTOR; PHOTON CREATED ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; QUANTUM CONDUCTOR; QUANTUM PARTITION NOISE; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT; RADIO FREQUENCY IRRADIATION;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 1842637675     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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