Shot noise in resonant tunneling through a zero-dimensional state with a complex energy spectrum

Abstract

We investigate the noise properties of a GaAs/AlGaAs resonant tunneling structure at bias voltages where the current characteristic is determined by single electron tunneling. We discuss the suppression of the shot noise in the framework of a coupled two-state system. For large bias voltages we observed super-Poissonian shot noise up to values of the Fano factor $α\approx 10$.

4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for Phys. Rev. B