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Universality of the 1/3 shot-noise suppression factor in nondegenerate diffusive conductors

T. Gonzalez, C. Gonzalez, J. Mateos, D. Pardo, L. Reggiani, O. M. Bulashenko, J. M. Rubi

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/9803372

Abstract

Shot-noise suppression is investigated in nondegenerate diffusive conductors by means of an ensemble Monte Carlo simulator. The universal 1/3 suppression value is obtained when transport occurs under elastic collision regime provided the following conditions are satisfied: (i) The applied voltage is much larger than the thermal value; (ii) the length of the device is much longer than both the elastic mean free path and the Debye length. By fully suppressing carrier-number fluctuations, long range Coulomb interaction is essential to obtain the 1/3 value in the low-frequency limit.

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