We report on an analytical study of the statistics of conductance, g, and shot-noise power, p, for a chaotic cavity with arbitrary numbers N1,2 of channels in two leads and symmetry parameter β = 1, 2, 4. With the theory of Selberg’s integral the first four cumulants of g and first two cumulants of p are calculated explicitly. We give analytical expressions for the conductance and shot-noise di...

An improvement in precision beyond the limit set by the vacuum-state or zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field is reported for the detection of amplitude modulation encoded on a weak signal beam. The improvement is achieved by employing the squeezed light from an optical parametric oscillator to reduce the level of fluctuations below the shot-noise limit. An increase in signal-to-...

We present measurements of current noise in quantum point contacts as a function of sourcedrain bias, gate voltage, and in-plane magnetic field. At zero bias, Johnson noise provides a measure of the electron temperature. At finite bias, shot noise at zero field exhibits an asymmetry related to the 0.7 structure in conductance. The asymmetry in noise evolves smoothly into the symmetric signature...

Temporal noise sets a fundamental limit on image sensor performance, especially under low illumination and in video applications. In a CCD image sensor, temporal noise is well studied and characterized. It is primarily due to the photodetector shot noise and the thermal and 1/f noise of the output charge to voltage amplifier. In a CMOS APS several additional sources contribute to temporal noise...

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We demonstrate a new simultaneous normalized detection technique for fluorescence detection of ultracold atoms in a superposition of ground-state hyperfine levels. Using this technique we observe atom shot-noise limited detection signal-to-noise ratios in excess of 7800:1 per shot and 14400:1 in 1 s.

We experimentally demonstrate {0.6 dB of photocurrent noise reduction below the shot-noise limit ({1.4 dB without losses) in a phase-sensitive ampliier (nonlinear Sagnac interferometer) using two orthogonally polarized pulses to cancel the GAWBS noise.

We use a hysteretic Josephson junction as an on-chip detector of the third moment of shot noise of a tunnel junction. The detectable bandwidth is determined by the plasma frequency of the detector, which is about 50 GHz in the present experiment. The third moment of shot noise results in a measurable change of the switching rate when reversing polarity of the current through the noise source. W...

The reduction of quantum scattering leads to the suppression of shot noise. In this Letter, we analyze the crossover from the quantum transport regime with universal shot noise to the classical regime where noise vanishes. By making use of the stochastic path integral approach, we find the statistics of transport and the transmission properties of a chaotic cavity as a function of a system para...

In a variety of mesoscopic systems shot noise is seen to be suppressed in comparison with its Poisson value. In this work we observe a considerable enhancement of shot noise in the case of resonant tunneling via localized states. We present a model of correlated transport through two localized states which provides both a qualitative and a quantitative description of this effect.