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Recent Advances in Studies of Current Noise

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This is a brief review of recent activities in the field of current noise intended for newcomers. We first briefly discuss main properties of shot noise in nanostructures, and then turn to recent developments, concentrating on issues related to experimental progress: non-symmetrized cumulants and quantum noise; counting statistics; super-Poissonian noise; current noise and interferometry

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Acknowledgments

The author very much appreciates collaboration with his friends and colleagues on various issues related to current noise, in chronological order: Stijn van Langen, Eugene Sukhorukov, Henning Schomerus, Carlo Beenakker, Gabriele Campagnano, Oleg Jouravlev, Yuli Nazarov, Omar Usmani, Thomas Ludwig, Alexander Mirlin, and Yuval Gefen. He is especially grateful to Markus Büttiker, who introduced him to the field of shot noise.

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Blanter, Y.M. (2010). Recent Advances in Studies of Current Noise. In: Vojta, M., Röthig, C., Schön, G. (eds) CFN Lectures on Functional Nanostructures - Volume 2. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 820. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14376-2_3

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