74 research outputs found
Separation of neutral and charge modes in one dimensional chiral edge channels
Coulomb interactions have a major role in one-dimensional electronic
transport. They modify the nature of the elementary excitations from Landau
quasiparticles in higher dimensions to collective excitations in one dimension.
Here we report the direct observation of the collective neutral and charge
modes of the two chiral co-propagating edge channels of opposite spins of the
quantum Hall effect at filling factor 2. Generating a charge density wave at
frequency f in the outer channel, we measure the current induced by
inter-channel Coulomb interaction in the inner channel after a 3-mm propagation
length. Varying the driving frequency from 0.7 to 11 GHz, we observe damped
oscillations in the induced current that result from the phase shift between
the fast charge and slow neutral eigenmodes. We measure the dispersion relation
and dissipation of the neutral mode from which we deduce quantitative
information on the interaction range and parameters.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figure
Shot noise in carbon nanotube based Fabry-Perot interferometers
We report on shot noise measurements in carbon nanotube based Fabry-Perot
electronic interferometers. As a consequence of quantum interferences, the
noise power spectral density oscillates as a function of the voltage applied to
the gate electrode. The quantum shot noise theory accounts for the data
quantitatively. It allows to confirm the existence of two nearly degenerate
orbitals. At resonance, the transmission of the nanotube approaches unity, and
the nanotube becomes noiseless, as observed in quantum point contacts. In this
weak backscattering regime, the dependence of the noise on the backscattering
current is found weaker than expected, pointing either to electron-electron
interactions or to weak decoherence
Supercollision cooling in undoped graphene
Carrier mobility in solids is generally limited by electron-impurity or
electron-phonon scattering depending on the most frequently occurring event.
Three body collisions between carriers and both phonons and impurities are
rare; they are denoted supercollisions (SCs). Elusive in electronic transport
they should emerge in relaxation processes as they allow for large energy
transfers. As pointed out in Ref. \onlinecite{Song2012PRL}, this is the case in
undoped graphene where the small Fermi surface drastically restricts the
allowed phonon energy in ordinary collisions. Using electrical heating and
sensitive noise thermometry we report on SC-cooling in diffusive monolayer
graphene. At low carrier density and high phonon temperature the Joule power
obeys a law as a function of electronic temperature .
It overrules the linear law expected for ordinary collisions which has recently
been observed in resistivity measurements. The cubic law is characteristic of
SCs and departs from the dependence recently reported for metallic
graphene below the Bloch-Gr\"{u}neisen temperature. These supercollisions are
important for applications of graphene in bolometry and photo-detection
Thermal shot noise in top-gated single carbon nanotube field effect transistors
The high-frequency transconductance and current noise of top-gated single
carbon nanotube transistors have been measured and used to investigate hot
electron effects in one-dimensional transistors. Results are in good agreement
with a theory of 1-dimensional nano-transistor. In particular the prediction of
a large transconductance correction to the Johnson-Nyquist thermal noise
formula is confirmed experimentally. Experiment shows that nanotube transistors
can be used as fast charge detectors for quantum coherent electronics with a
resolution of in the 0.2- band.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure
Conserved spin and orbital phase along carbon nanotubes connected with multiple ferromagnetic contacts
We report on spin dependent transport measurements in carbon nanotubes based
multi-terminal circuits. We observe a gate-controlled spin signal in non-local
voltages and an anomalous conductance spin signal, which reveal that both the
spin and the orbital phase can be conserved along carbon nanotubes with
multiple ferromagnetic contacts. This paves the way for spintronics devices
exploiting both these quantum mechanical degrees of freedom on the same
footing.Comment: 8 pages - minor differences with published versio
Electron quantum optics : partitioning electrons one by one
We have realized a quantum optics like Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT)
experiment by partitioning, on an electronic beam-splitter, single elementary
electronic excitations produced one by one by an on-demand emitter. We show
that the measurement of the output currents correlations in the HBT geometry
provides a direct counting, at the single charge level, of the elementary
excitations (electron/hole pairs) generated by the emitter at each cycle. We
observe the antibunching of low energy excitations emitted by the source with
thermal excitations of the Fermi sea already present in the input leads of the
splitter, which suppresses their contribution to the partition noise. This
effect is used to probe the energy distribution of the emitted wave-packets.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Hot electron cooling by acoustic phonons in graphene
We have investigated the energy loss of hot electrons in metallic graphene by
means of GHz noise thermometry at liquid helium temperature. We observe the
electronic temperature T / V at low bias in agreement with the heat diffusion
to the leads described by the Wiedemann-Franz law. We report on
behavior at high bias, which corresponds to a T4 dependence
of the cooling power. This is the signature of a 2D acoustic phonon cooling
mechanism. From a heat equation analysis of the two regimes we extract accurate
values of the electron-acoustic phonon coupling constant in monolayer
graphene. Our measurements point to an important effect of lattice disorder in
the reduction of , not yet considered by theory. Moreover, our study
provides a strong and firm support to the rising field of graphene bolometric
detectors.Comment: 5 figure
Magneto-exciton limit of quantum Hall breakdown in graphene
One of the intrinsic drift velocity limit of the quantum Hall effect is the
collective magneto-exciton (ME) instability. It has been demonstrated in
bilayer graphene (BLG) using noise measurements. We reproduce this experiment
in monolayer graphene (MLG), and show that the same mechanism carries a direct
relativistic signature on the breakdown velocity. Based on theoretical
calculations of MLG- and BLG-ME spectra, we show that Doppler-induced
instabilities manifest for a ME phase velocity determined by a universal value
of the ME conductivity, set by the Hall conductance.Comment: 27 pages, 11 figures including supplementary information (14 pages
and 3 figures for the main text alone
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