Full Counting Statistics of Electrons through Interaction of the Single Quantum Dot System with the Optical Field

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2019 Mar 8;9(3):394. doi: 10.3390/nano9030394.

Abstract

In this paper, using the particle-number-resolved master equation, the properties of full counting statistics (FCS) are investigated for a single quantum dot (QD) system interacting with optical fields in the thermal state, Fock state, coherent state, and coherent state with random phase. In these diverse quantum states of optical fields, average tunneling currents have different step shoulder heights at a lower bias voltage with the same light intensity, and a staircase-shaped current can be induced unexpectedly in vacuum state optical field. The characteristics of the Fano factor and skewness in the coherent state differ from those in all of the other cases. For avalanche-like transport at a lower bias voltage, the mechanism is a dynamical channel blockade in a moderate electron⁻photon interaction regime. There is a pronounced negative differential conductance that results from tuning the phase of the coherent state optical field in a symmetric QD system.

Keywords: full counting statistics; optical fields; particle-number-resolved master equation; quantum dot.