Local and Non-local Shot Noise in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

TL;DR

This study measures shot noise in multiwalled carbon nanotubes at cryogenic temperatures, revealing the influence of contacts on noise characteristics and providing insights into non-equilibrium states in these nanostructures.

Contribution

It provides a quantitative comparison of shot noise in MWNTs with semiclassical theory, highlighting the role of contacts and non-equilibrium effects in noise generation.

Findings

Non-local shot noise observed across weakly transmitting contacts.

Low-impedance contacts suppress non-local shot noise.

Intrinsic Fano factor of MWNTs is less than 0.03.

Abstract

We have investigated shot noise in multiterminal, diffusive multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) at 4.2 K over the frequency f = 600 - 850 MHz. Quantitative comparison of our data to semiclassical theory, based on non-equilibrium distribution functions, indicates that a major part of the noise is caused by a non-equilibrium state imposed by the contacts. Our data exhibits non-local shot noise across weakly transmitting contacts while a low-impedance contact eliminates such noise almost fully. We obtain F_{tube}< 0.03 for the intrinsic Fano factor of our MWNTs.