The analog of two seminal quantum optics experiments are considered in a condensed matter setting with single electron sources injecting electronic wave packets on edge states coupled through a quantum point contact. When only one electron is injected, the measurement of noise correlations at the output of the quantum point contact corresponds to the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss setup. When two electrons are injected on opposite edges, the equivalent of the Hong-Ou-Mandel collision is achieved, exhibiting a dip as in the coincidence measurements of quantum optics. The Landauer-Buttiker scattering theory is used to first review these phenomena in the integer quantum Hall effect, next, to focus on two more exotic systems: edge states of two dimensional topological insulators, where new physics emerges from time reversal symmetry and three electron collisions can be achieved; and edges states of a hybrid Hall/superconducting device, which allow to perform electron quantum optics experiments with Bogoliubov quasiparticles.
@article{arxiv.1610.01043,
title = {Electronic quantum optics beyond the integer quantum Hall effect},
author = {D. Ferraro and T. Jonckheere and J. Rech and T. Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01043},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
13 pages, 10 figures, invited contribution for a focus issue on "Single-electron control in solid-state devices"