138 research outputs found
Effect of interactions on the noise of chiral Luttinger liquid systems
We analyze the current noise, generated at a quantum point contact in
fractional quantum Hall edge state devices, using the chiral Luttinger liquid
model with an impurity and the associated exact field theoretic solution. We
demonstrate that an experimentally relevant regime of parameters exists where
the noise coincides with the partition noise of independent Laughlin
quasiparticles. However, outside of this regime, this independent particle
picture breaks down and the inclusion of interaction effects is essential to
understand the shot noise.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; v2: modified FIG.1, new FIG.
Fractionalization of minimal excitations in integer quantum Hall edge channels
A theoretical study of the single electron coherence properties of Lorentzian
and rectangular pulses is presented. By combining bosonization and the Floquet
scattering approach, the effect of interactions on a periodic source of voltage
pulses is computed exactly. When such excitations are injected into one of the
channels of a system of two copropagating quantum Hall edge channels, they
fractionalize into pulses whose charge and shape reflects the properties of
interactions. We show that the dependence of fractionalization induced
electron/hole pair production in the pulses amplitude contains clear signatures
of the fractionalization of the individual excitations. We propose an
experimental setup combining a source of Lorentzian pulses and an Hanbury Brown
and Twiss interferometer to measure interaction induced electron/hole pair
production and more generally to reconstruct single electron coherence of these
excitations before and after their fractionalization.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, 1 tabl
Beyond the Linearity of Current-Voltage Characteristics in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
We present local and non-local electron transport measurements on individual
multi-wall nanotubes for bias voltage between 0 and about 4 V. Local
current-voltage characteristics are quite linear. In contrast, non-local
measurements are highly non-linear; the differential non-local conductance can
even become negative in the high-bias regime. We discuss the relationship
between these results and transport parameters such as the elastic length, the
number of current carrying shells, and the number of conducting modes.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Photon-assisted shot noise in graphene in the Terahertz range
When subjected to electromagnetic radiation, the fluctuation of the
electronic current across a quantum conductor increases. This additional noise,
called photon-assisted shot noise, arises from the generation and subsequent
partition of electron-hole pairs in the conductor. The physics of
photon-assisted shot noise has been thoroughly investigated at microwave
frequencies up to 20 GHz, and its robustness suggests that it could be extended
to the Terahertz (THz) range. Here, we present measurements of the quantum shot
noise generated in a graphene nanoribbon subjected to a THz radiation. Our
results show signatures of photon-assisted shot noise, further demonstrating
that hallmark time-dependant quantum transport phenomena can be transposed to
the THz range.Comment: includes supplemental materia
Integer and fractional charge Lorentzian voltage pulses analyzed in the frame of Photon-assisted Shot Noise
The periodic injection of electrons in a quantum conductor using periodic
voltage pulses applied on a contact is studied in the energy and time-domain
using shot noise computation in order to make comparison with experiments. We
particularly consider the case of periodic Lorentzian voltage pulses. When
carrying integer charge, they are known to provide electronic states with a
minimal number of excitations, while other type of pulses are all accompanied
by an extra neutral cloud of electron and hole excitations. This paper focuses
on the low frequency shot noise which arises when the pulse excitations are
partitioned by a single scatterer in the framework of the Photo Assisted Shot
Noise (PASN) theory. As a unique tool to count the number of excitations
carried per pulse, shot noise reveals that pulses of arbitrary shape and
arbitrary charge show a marked minimum when the charge is integer. Shot noise
spectroscopy is also considered to perform energy-domain characterization of
the charge pulses. In particular it reveals the striking asymmetrical spectrum
of Lorentzian pulses. Finally, time-domain information is obtained from Hong Ou
Mandel like noise correlations when two trains of pulses generated on opposite
contacts collide on the scatterer. As a function of the time delay between
pulse trains, the noise is shown to measure the electron wavepacket
autocorrelation function for integer Lorentzian thanks to electron
antibunching. In order to make contact with recent experiments all the
calculations are made at zero and finite temperature
Intrinsic and extrinsic decay of edge magnetoplasmons in graphene
We investigate intrinsic and extrinsic decay of edge magnetoplasmons (EMPs)
in graphene quantum Hall (QH) systems by high-frequency electronic
measurements. From EMP resonances in disk shaped graphene, we show that the
dispersion relation of EMPs is nonlinear due to interactions, giving rise to
intrinsic decay of EMP wavepacket. We also identify extrinsic dissipation
mechanisms due to interaction with localized states in bulk graphene from the
decay time of EMP wavepackets. We indicate that, owing to the unique linear and
gapless band structure, EMP dissipation in graphene can be lower than that in
GaAs systems.Comment: 5 page
Determination of the Intershell Conductance in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
We report on the intershell electron transport in multiwalled carbon
nanotubes (MWNT). To do this, local and nonlocal four-point measurements are
used to study the current path through the different shells of a MWNT. For
short electrode separations 1 m the current mainly flows
through the two outer shells, described by a resistive transmission line with
an intershell conductance per length of ~(10 k\Omega)^{-1}/m. The
intershell transport is tunnel-type and the transmission is consistent with the
estimate based on the overlap between -orbitals of neighboring shells.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Finite bias visibility of the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer
We present an original statistical method to measure the visibility of
interferences in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the presence of
low frequency fluctuations. The visibility presents a single side lobe
structure shown to result from a gaussian phase averaging whose variance is
quadratic with the bias. To reinforce our approach and validate our statistical
method, the same experiment is also realized with a stable sample. It exhibits
the same visibility behavior as the fluctuating one, indicating the intrinsic
character of finite bias phase averaging. In both samples, the dilution of the
impinging current reduces the variance of the gaussian distribution.Comment: 4 pages, 5 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
Experimental determination of the statistics of photons emitted by a tunnel junction
We report on a microwave Hanbury-Brown Twiss experiment probing the
statistics of GHz photons emitted by a tunnel junction in the shot noise regime
at low temperature. By measuring the crosscorrelated fluctuations of the
occupation numbers of the photon modes of both detection branches we show that,
while the statistics of electrons is Poissonian, the photons obey chaotic
statistics. This is observed even for low photon occupation number when the
voltage across the junction is close to .Comment: Submitted to Phys.Rev.Let
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