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Non-Classical Radiation Emission By A Coherent Conductor

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-01-01 v1

Abstract

We report experimental evidence that the microwave electromagnetic field generated by a normal conductor, here a tunnel junction placed at ultra-low temperature, can be non-classical. By measuring the quadratures of the electromagnetic field at one or two frequencies in the GHz range, we demonstrate the existence of squeezing as well as entanglement in such radiation. In one experiment, we observe that the variance of one quadrature of the photo-assisted noise generated by the junction goes below its vacuum level. In the second experiment, we demonstrate the existence of correlations between the quadratures taken at two frequencies, which can be stronger than allowed by classical mechanics, proving that the radiation at those two frequencies are entangled.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06337,
  title  = {Non-Classical Radiation Emission By A Coherent Conductor},
  author = {Jean-Charles Forgues and Christian Lupien and Bertrand Reulet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06337},
  year   = {2017}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.0552

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