Predictions

To have predicted an experiment is the joy of a theorist. It doesn't happen a lot: usually we are explaining experiments, rather than predicting them. Here are references to theoretical predictions originating from our group (some jointly with other groups). Certain predictions have come out, others have not (or not yet?).

• Quantization of the optical transmission cross-section of a slit.
• Quantization of the critical current of a ballistic Josephson junction.
• There is no shot noise for classical scattering.
• Coulomb blockade of the Aharanov-Bohm effect.
• Sawtooth oscillations of the thermopower of a quantum dot.
• The shot-noise of a disordered metal is smaller than the Poisson value by a factor of 3.
• Andreev reflection doubles the shot-noise.
• Resistance minimum of a double-barrier junction with a superconducting contact.
• Contact resistance between a ferromagnet and a superconductor.
• Giant backscattering peak in Andreev reflection.
• Absence of an excitation gap in an integrable Josephson junction.
• Weak localization effect in a magnetic field.
• Insensitivity to time-reversal-symmetry breaking of conductance fluctuations with a superconducting contact.
• Reduction of degrees of freedom of the photocount distribution in a random laser.
• Universal limit for the excess noise of coherent radiation propagating through a random medium.
• Dynamic coherent backscattering effect.
• Vibration of a wire carrying an electrical current.
• Pascal distribution of voltage fluctuations.
• Temperature dependent third moment of tunneling noise.
• Creation of entangled electron-hole pairs at a tunnel barrier.
• Charge detection enables free electron quantum computation.
• Existence of shot noise in ballistic graphene.
• Specular Andreev reflection in graphene.
• Valley filter in graphene.
• Strain dependent conductance plateaus in a graphene p-n junction.

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