SEMICLASSICAL THEORY OF SHOT-NOISE SUPPRESSION

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作者
DEJONG, MJM [1 ]
BEENAKKER, CWJ [1 ]
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[1] LEIDEN UNIV,INST LORENTZ,2300 RA LEIDEN,NETHERLANDS
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 51卷 / 23期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.51.16867
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T [工业技术];
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摘要
The Boltzmann-Langevin equation is used to relate the shot-noise power of a mesoscopic conductor to classical transmission probabilities at the Fermi level. This semiclassical theory is applied to tunneling through n barriers in series. For n→ the shot noise approaches one-third of the Poisson noise, independent of the transparency of the barriers. This confirms that the one-third suppression known to occur in diffusive conductors does not require phase coherence. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:16867 / 16870
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