External meeting: Geneva University
Université de Genève
Ecole de physique
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1211 Genève 4
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Lundi 20 novembre 2006
COLLOQUIUM
17:00 - Auditoire Stückelberg
Electrical correlation measurements in quantum nano-structures
Dr. Stefan Oberholzer / Basel University
Measuring the current-voltage characteristics of small conductors is widely used to characterize their electronic transport properties. In addition to such time-averaged measurements, correlation measurements between temporal fluctuations (noise) around the time-averaged mean current provide us with very important supplementary information about electrical transport. In this talk, I review our experimental work on shot noise, noise which originates from the granularity of charge and the diffraction of the electronic wave-function, and especially address the fundamental relation between electronic scattering experiments and the statistical properties of indistinguishable quantum particles in nanoscopic structures.
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