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Phys. Rev. B 64, 233316 (2001) [4 pages]

Full counting statistics of a charge pump in the Coulomb blockade regime

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A. V. Andreev1,2 and E. G. Mishchenko1,2,3
1Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
2Department of Physics, University of Colorado, CB 390, Colorado 80309-0390
3L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kosygin 2, Moscow 117334, Russia

Received 22 August 2001; published 29 November 2001

We study full charge counting statistics (FCCS) of a charge pump based on a nearly open single electron transistor. The problem is mapped onto an exactly soluble problem of a nonequilibrium g=1/2 Luttinger liquid with an impurity. We obtain an analytic expression for the generating function of the transmitted charge for an arbitrary pumping strength. Although this model contains fractionally charged excitations only integer transmitted charges can be observed. In the weak pumping limit FCCS correspond to a Poissonian transmission of particles with charge e*=e/2 from which all events with odd numbers of transferred particles are excluded.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.233316
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.64.233316
PACS:
73.23.Hk, 71.10.Pm, 72.10.Bg, 73.40.Gk