Measurement of Quantum Noise in a Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime

Abstract

The current emission noise of a carbon nanotube quantum dot in the Kondo regime is measured at frequencies ν of the order or higher than the frequency associated with the Kondo effect kBTK/h, with TK the Kondo temperature. The carbon nanotube is coupled via an on-chip resonant circuit to a quantum noise detector, a superconductor-insulator-superconductor junction. We find for hν≈kBTK a Kondo effect related singularity at a voltage bias eV≈hν, and a strong reduction of this singularity for hν≈3kBTK, in good agreement with theory. Our experiment constitutes a new original tool for the investigation of the nonequilibrium dynamics of many-body phenomena in nanoscale devices.