Full Counting Statistics of Superconductor– Normal-metal Heterostructures
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In 1918 Schottky discovered that the fluctuations in vacuum diodes can be related to the discrete nature of the charge carriers [1]. His observation was that the power spectrum of the current fluctuations gave direct access to the charge e of the discrete carriers responsible for the current. From his theoretical considerations he found a relation between the noise power of the current fluctuations SI and the average current I,
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