Pseudorandom binary injection of levitons for electron quantum optics
Résumé
The recent realization of single electron sources lets envision performing electron quantum optics experiments, where electrons can be viewed as flying qubits propagating in a ballistic conductor. To date, all electron sources operate in a periodic electron injection mode leading to energy spectrum singularities in various physical observables which sometime hide the bare nature of physical effects. To go beyond, we propose a spread-spectrum approach where electron flying qubits are injected in a non-periodic manner following a pseudo-random binary bit pattern. Extending the Floquet scattering theory approach from periodic to spread-spectrum drive, the shot noise of pseudo-random binary sequences of single electron injection can be calculated for leviton and non-leviton sources. Our new approach allows to disentangle the physics of the manipulated excitations from that of the injection protocol. In particular, the spread spectrum approach is shown to provide a better knowledge of electronic Hong Ou Mandel correlations and to clarify the nature of the pulse train coherence and the role of the dynamical orthogonality catastrophe for non-integer charge injection.
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Physique [physics]Origine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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