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Quantum partition noise of photo-created electron-hole pairs

L. -H. Reydellet, P. Roche, D. C. Glattli, B. Etienne, Y. Jin

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0206514

Abstract

We show experimentally that even when no bias voltage is applied to a quantum conductor, the electronic quantum partition noise can be investigated using GHz radiofrequency irradiation of a reservoir. Using a Quantum Point Contact configuration as the ballistic conductor we are able to make an accurate determination of the partition noise Fano factor resulting from the photo-assisted shot noise. Applying both voltage bias and rf irradiation we are able to make a definitive quantitative test of the scattering theory of photo-assisted shot noise.

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