Tunable electron counting statistics in a quantum dot at thermal equilibrium

X. C. Zhang,1 G. Mazzeo,2 A. Brataas,3 M. Xiao,1 E. Yablonovitch,4 and H. W. Jiang1 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA 3Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway 4Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkley, Berkley, California 94720, USA Received 18 March 2009; revised manuscript received 4 June 2009; published 27 July 2009