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Bidirectional single-electron counting and the fluctuation theorem

2010; American Physical Society; Volume: 81; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevb.81.125331

1550-235X

Yasuhiro Utsumi, Dmitry S. Golubev, Michael Marthaler, Keiji Saito, T. Fujisawa, Gerd Schön,

Quantum Information and Cryptography

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the full counting statistics of bidirectional single-electron tunneling through a double quantum dot in a GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructure and compare with predictions of the fluctuation theorem (FT) for Markovian stochastic processes. We observe that the quantum point contact electrometer used to study the transport induces nonequilibrium shot noise and dot-level fluctuations and strongly modifies the tunneling statistics. As a result, the FT appears to be violated. We show that it is satisfied if the back-action of the electrometer is taken into account, and we provide a quantitative estimate of this effect.