Effect of screening on shot noise in diffusive mesoscopic conductors

Abstract

Shot noise in diffusive mesoscopic conductors, at finite observation frequencies $\omega $ (comparable to the reciprocal Thouless time $\tau_T^{-1}$), is analyzed with an account of screening. At low frequencies, the well-known result $S_I(\omega)=2eI/3$ is recovered. This result is valid at arbitrary $\omega \tau_T$ for wide conductors longer than the screening length. However, at least for two very different systems, namely, wide and short conductors, and thin conductors over a close ground plane, noise approaches a different fundamental level, $S_I(\omega) = eI$, at $\omega \tau _T\gg 1$.