Glauber coherence of single-electron sources

2012/12/01 by Géraldine Haack, Michael Moskalets, Μ. Büttiker +1
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adiabatic process #Amplitude #Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) #Correlation function (quantum field theory) #Electron #Floquet theory #Glauber #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Statistical physics #cond-mat.mes-hall #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.87.201302

published as Phys. Rev. B 87, 201302(R) (2013) · 4+ pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2012/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2013/05/17 · arxiv updated 2013/05/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Recently demonstrated solid-state single-electron sources generate different quantum states depending on their operation condition. For adiabatic and nonadiabatic sources, we determine the Glauber correlation function in terms of the Floquet scattering matrix of the source. The correlation function provides full information on the shape of the state and on its time-dependent amplitude and phase. The coherence properties of single-electron states are therefore essential for the production of quantum multiparticle states.

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