Statistics of rare events in single-electron devices

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dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.advisorGolubev, Dmitri S., Dr., Aalto University, Department of Applied Physics, Finland
dc.contributor.advisorPeltonen, Joonas P., Dr., Aalto University, Department of Applied Physics, Finland
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Shilpi
dc.contributor.departmentTeknillisen fysiikan laitosfi
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Applied Physicsen
dc.contributor.labPICO-groupen
dc.contributor.schoolPerustieteiden korkeakoulufi
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Scienceen
dc.contributor.supervisorPekola, Jukka P., Prof., Aalto University, Department of Applied Physics, Finland
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-12T10:01:05Z
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dc.date.defence2019-02-20
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractDevelopments in fabrication and control of nanoscale devices have made precise single-electron counting possible. Due to the improved stability of these devices, increasing amounts of data can be collected leading to unprecedented statistics. These features have enabled the experimental verification of various statistical physics concepts, such as fluctuation relations and Maxwell's demon, with high precision. The recent theory results on extreme fluctuations in the entropy produced by a system, and first passage times, have not yet been verified experimentally. The experimental studies of these theoretical concepts using single-electron devices are the focus of this thesis. The thesis starts with a brief introduction to the physics of single-electronic devices used in the experiments along with the experimental setup used to study them. Next, the experimental methods used to fabricate the samples and the basic sample characterization techniques are presented. Later, the theoretical concepts are discussed and compared to the experimental results. This part starts with the probability distribution of the filtered telegraph signal from a bistable system, here a single-electron transistor. The filtering is done in two different ways: low pass filtering and finite time-averaging of the signal. The former allows us to propose a new method to obtain the transition rates between two states of the bistable system using the cumulants of its distribution. The latter allows us to see the rare fluctuations of current and observe theoretically predicted elliptic tail of the logarithm of the averaged current distribution. Next, the stochastic entropy produced by a system is discussed. This part also includes the properties of its distribution and its minimum value. The theory is presented along with the experimental observations. Finally, an introduction to the theory of first-passage-time distributions is provided.en
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dc.identifier.urnURN:ISBN:978-952-60-8420-6
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dc.opnCiliberto, Sergio, Prof., Laboratoire de Physique de ENSL, France
dc.publisherAalto Universityen
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dc.relation.haspart[Publication 1]: S. Singh, E. Mannila, D.S. Golubev, J.T. Peltonen, J.P. Pekola. Determining the parameters of a random telegraph signal by digital low pass filtering. Applied Physics Letters, Volume 112, 243101, June 2018. Full Text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201808014110. DOI: 10.1063/1.5033560
dc.relation.haspart[Publication 2]: S. Singh, J.T. Peltonen, I.M. Khaymovich, J.V. Koski, C. Flindt, J.P. Pekola. Distribution of current fluctuations in a bistable conductor. Physical Review B, Volume 94, Issue 24, 241407, December 2016. Full Text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201703233115. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.241407
dc.relation.haspart[Publication 3]: S. Singh, É. Roldán, I. Neri, I. Khaymovich, D.S. Golubev, V.F. Maisi, J.T. Peltonen, F. Jülicher, J.P. Pekola. Extreme reductions of entropy in an electronic double dot. arXiv:1712.01693, Submitted 2018.
dc.relation.haspart[Publication 4]: S. Singh, P. Menczel, D.S. Golubev, I.M. Khaymovich, J.T. Peltonen, C. Flindt, K. Saito, É. Roldán, and J.P. Pekola. Universal First-Passage-Time Distribution of Non-Gaussian Currents. arXiv:1809.06870, Submitted 2018.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONSen
dc.relation.ispartofseries28/2019
dc.revIhn, Thomas, Prof., ETH Zurich, Switzerland
dc.revFuno, Ken, Dr., RIKEN, Japan
dc.subject.keywordtunnel junctionen
dc.subject.keywordsingle-electron devicesen
dc.subject.keywordbistable systemen
dc.subject.keywordstochastic thermodynamicsen
dc.subject.keywordentropyen
dc.subject.keywordfirst passage timesen
dc.subject.keywordfluctuation relationsen
dc.subject.keywordlarge deviationsen
dc.subject.otherPhysicsen
dc.titleStatistics of rare events in single-electron devicesen
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