Noise Insights into Electronic Transport


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Abstract

Typical experimental measurement is set up as a study of the system’s response to a stationary external excitation. This approach considers any random fluctuation of the signal as spurious contribution, which is to be eliminated via time-averaging, or, equivalently, bandwidth reduction. Beyond that lies a conceptually different paradigm—the measurement of the system’s spontaneous fluctuations. The goal of this overview article is to demonstrate how current noise measurements bring insight into hidden features of electronic transport in various mesoscopic conductors, ranging from 2D topological insulators to individual carbon nanotubes.

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S. U. Piatrusha

Institute of Solid State Physics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700

L. V. Ginzburg

Institute of Solid State Physics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700

E. S. Tikhonov

Institute of Solid State Physics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700

D. V. Shovkun

Institute of Solid State Physics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700

G. Koblmüller

Walter Schottky Institut, Physik Department, and Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Germany, Garching, 85748

A. V. Bubis

Institute of Solid State Physics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University); Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700; Moscow

A. K. Grebenko

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University); Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700; Moscow

A. G. Nasibulin

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology; Department of Applied Physics, School of Science

Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; Aalto, FI-00076

V. S. Khrapai

Institute of Solid State Physics; Department of Physics

Author for correspondence.
Email: dick@issp.ac.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432; Moscow, 119435

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