title: Temperature-dependent third cumulant of tunneling noise.
abstract: Poisson statistics predicts that the shot noise in a tunnel junction has a temperature independent third cumulant e(2)I, determined solely by the mean current I. Experimental data, however, show a puzzling temperature dependence. We demonstrate theoretically that the third cumulant becomes strongly temperature dependent and may even change sign as a result of feedback from the electromagnetic environment. In the limit of a noninvasive (zero-impedance) measurement circuit in thermal equilibrium with the junction, we find that the third cumulant crosses over from e(2)I at low temperatures to -e(2)I at high temperatures.
authors.affiliation: Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: C W J
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Beenakker
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kindermann
authors.forename: Yu V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Nazarov