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The Effect of Interaction on Shot Noise in The Quantum Limit
We employ a non-linear sigma model defined on a Keldysh contour to study the
current and the current noise in a diffusive micro-bridge in the presence of
electron-electron interactions. Out of equilibrium the fluctuation-dissipation
theorem (FDT) does not apply, hence these two quantities are not simply
interrelated. For a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) we obtain logarithmic
singularities in the low frequency limit. PACS Nos. 71.10.Ay, 71.23.An,
73.50.TdComment: Submitted to the proceedings of 36 Renconters de Moriond "Electronic
correlations: from meso- to nano-physics". One figure adde
Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer as a tool to probe fractional statistics
We study transport through an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer recently
devised at the Weizmann Institute. We show that this device can be used to
probe statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall regime. We
calculate the tunneling current through the interferometer as the function of
the Aharonov-Bohm flux, temperature and voltage bias, and demonstrate that its
flux-dependent component is strongly sensitive to the statistics of tunneling
quasiparticles. More specifically, the flux-dependent and flux-independent
contributions to the current are related by a power law, the exponent being a
function of the quasiparticle statistics.Comment: 22 pages; 8 figure
Controlling for Lexical Closeness in Survey Research: A Demonstration on the Technology Acceptance Model
Word co-occurrences in text carry lexical information that can be harvested by data-mining tools such as latent semantic analysis (LSA). In this research perspective paper, we demonstrate the potency of using such embedded information by demonstrating that the technology acceptance model (TAM) can be reconstructed significantly by analyzing unrelated newspaper articles. We suggest that part of the reason for the phenomenal statistical validity of TAM across contexts may be related to the lexical closeness among the keywords in its measurement items. We do so not to critique TAM but to praise the quality of its methodology. Next, putting that LSA reconstruction of TAM into perspective, we show that empirical data can provide a significantly better fitting model than LSA data can. Combined, the results raise the possibility that a significant portion of variance in survey based research results from word cooccurrences in the language itself regardless of the theory or context of the study. Addressing this possibility, we suggest a method to statistically control for lexical closeness
Full counting statistics of Luttinger liquid conductor
Non-equilibrium bosonization technique is used to study current fluctuations
of interacting electrons in a single-channel quantum wire representing a
Luttinger liquid (LL) conductor. An exact expression for the full counting
statistics of the transmitted charge is derived. It is given by Fredholm
determinant of the counting operator with a time dependent scattering phase.
The result has a form of counting statistics of non-interacting particles with
fractional charges, induced by scattering off the boundaries between the LL
wire and the non-interacting leads.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
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