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Effect of dephasing on the current statistics of mesoscopic devices
Marco G Pala1, Giuseppe Iannaccone
1Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Pisa, via Caruso, I-56122 Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
We investigate the effects of dephasing on the current statistics of mesoscopic conductors with a recently developed statistical model, focusing, in particular, on mesoscopic cavities and Aharonov-Bohm rings. For such devices, we analyze the influence of an arbitrary degree of decoherence on the cumulants of the current. We recover known results for the limiting cases of fully coherent and totally incoherent transport and are able to obtain detailed information on the intermediate regime of partial coherence for a varying number of open channels. We show that dephasing affects the average current, shot noise, and higher order cumulants in a quantitatively and qualitatively similar way, and that consequently shot noise or higher order cumulants of the current do not provide information on decoherence additional or complementary to what can be already obtained from the average current.
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