Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2025

Electronic interferometry with ultrashort plasmonic pulses

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Electronic flying qubits offer an interesting alternative to photonic qubits: electrons propagate slower, hence easier to control in real time, and Coulomb interaction enables direct entanglement between different qubits. While their coherence time is limited, picosecond-scale control would make them competitive in terms of number of possible coherent operations. The key challenge lies in achieving the dynamical regime, where the injected plasmonic pulse width is shorter than the quantum device dimensions. Here we reach this new regime in a quantum nanoelectronic system by injecting ultrashort single electron plasmonic pulses into a 14-micrometer-long Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Our findings reveal that quantum coherence is preserved for ultrashort plasmonic pulses, exhibiting enhanced contrast of coherent oscillations compared to the DC regime. Moreover, this coherence remains robust even under large bias voltages. This milestone demonstrates the feasibility of flying qubits as a promising alternative to localized qubit architectures, offering reduced hardware footprint, increased connectivity, and potential for scalable quantum information processing.

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hal-04693412 , version 1 (10-09-2024)

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Seddik Ouacel, Lucas Mazzella, Thomas Kloss, Matteo Aluffi, Thomas Vasselon, et al.. Electronic interferometry with ultrashort plasmonic pulses. Nature Communications, 2025, 16 (1), pp.4632. ⟨10.1038/s41467-025-58939-4⟩. ⟨hal-04693412⟩
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