Hierarchical Random Telegraph Signals in nano-junctions with Coulomb correlations

Abstract

We propose a microscopic hamiltonian together with a master equation description to model stochastic hierarchical Random Telegraph Signal (RTS) or Pop-corn noise in nano-junctions. The microscopic model incorporates the crucial Coulomb correlations due to the trapped charges inside the junction or at the metal-oxide interface. The exact solution of the microscopic model is based on a generalization of the Nozieres-De Dominicis method devised to treat the problem of the edge singularity in the X-ray absorption and emission spectra of metals. In the master equation description, the experimentally accessible transition rates are expressed in terms of the exact multi-channel Scattering matrix of the microscopic hamiltonian.