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We report on a new mechanism of giant phase modulation. The phenomenon arises when a dispersed photonic mode (slow light) strongly couples to an excitonic resonance. In such a case, even a small amount of optically injected carriers creates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 C. Sturm , D. Tanese , H. S. Nguyen , H. Flayac , E. Gallopin , A. Lemaître , I. Sagnes , D. Solnyshkov , A. Amo , G. Malpuech , J. Bloch

Phase insensitive optical amplification of an unknown quantum state is known to be a fundamentally noisy operation that inevitably adds noise to the amplified state [1 - 5]. However, this fundamental noise penalty in amplification can be…

Recent theoretical calculations, demonstrating that quantized charge transfer due to adiabatically modulated potentials in mesoscopic devices can result purely from the interference of the electron wave functions (without invoking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , V. Kashcheyevs

Phase-shifting interferometry is one of the optical measurement techniques that improves accuracy and resolution by incorporating a controlled phase shift into conventional optical interferometry. In this study, a four-step phase-shifting…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Eita Shoji , Anis Maddi , Guillaume Penelet , Tetsushi Biwa

We calculate low-frequency noise (LFN) in a quantum point contact (QPC) which is electrostatically defined in a 2D electron gas of a GaAs-AlGaAs heterostructure. The conventional source of LFN in such systems are scattering potentials…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. P. Hessling , Yu. Galperin

Sensing and measurement tasks in severely adverse conditions such as loss, noise and dephasing can be improved by illumination with quantum states of light. Previous results have shown a modest reduction in the number of measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alex O. C. Davis , Giacomo Sorelli , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

We show an electron interferometer between a quantum point contact (QPC) and a scanning gate microscope (SGM) tip in a two-dimensional electron gas. The QPC and SGM tip act as reflective barriers of a lossy cavity; the conductance through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 M. P. Jura , M. A. Topinka , M. Grobis , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We investigate the effect of measurement on the persistent current density in a lattice ring penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm flux and coupled to a quantum dot which is continuously monitored by a point contact detector. It is demonstrated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yong-Ping Zhang , Ying-Fang Gao , J. -Q. Liang

We consider a class of models of non-equilibrium electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built on integer quantum Hall edges states. The models are characterized by the electron-electron interaction being restricted to the inner part of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Stéphane Ngo Dinh , Dmitry A. Bagrets , Alexander D. Mirlin

We consider tunneling between two edges of Quantum Hall liquids (QHL) of filling factors $\nu_{0,1}=1/(2 m_{0,1}+1)$, with $m_0 \geq m_1\geq 0$, through two point contacts forming Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Quasi-particle description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-15 Vadim V. Ponomarenko , Dmitri V. Averin

The Aharanov-Bohm (AB) effect, which predicts that a magnetic field strongly influences the wave function of an electrically charged particle, is investigated in a three site system in terms of the quantum control by an additional dephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Georg Engelhardt , Jianshu Cao

We investigate the shot noise generated by particle emission from a mesoscopic capacitor into an edge state reflected and transmitted at a quantum point contact (QPC). For a capacitor subject to a periodic voltage the resulting shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-16 S. Ol'khovskaya , J. Splettstoesser , M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

Electron charge transport through a quantum point contact (QPC) driven by an asymmetric spin bias is studied. A large charge current is induced when the transmission coefficient of the QPC jumps from one integer plateau to the next.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

A three-site mesoscopic ring provides an ideal setting for an exact calculation of the bond current when the ring is threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux. The bond current is a measurable outcome of the coherent properties of the quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-23 Sushanta Dattagupta , Tanmay Saha

Transmission through a quantum point contact (QPC) in the quantum Hall regime usually exhibits multiple resonances as a function of gate voltage and high nonlinearity in bias. Such behavior is unpredictable and changes sample by sample.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Changki Hong , Jinhong Park , Yunchul Chung , Hyungkook Choi , Vladimir Umansky

We show experimentally how quantum interference can be produced using an integrated quantum system comprising an arch-shaped short quantum wire (or quantum point contact, QPC) of 1D electrons and a reflector forming an electronic cavity. On…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Chengyu Yan , Sanjeev Kumar , Michael Pepper , Patrick See , Ian Farrer , David Ritchie , Jonathan Griffiths , Geraint Jones

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference of fractional quasiparticles in the quantum Hall Effect generally reveals their elementary charge ($e^*$)[1-15]. Recently, our interferometry experiments with several particle states reported flux periods of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Bikash Ghosh , Maria Labendik , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , David F. Mross

In the literature, the study of electron transport in quantum devices is mainly devoted to DC properties. The fluctuations of the electrical current around these DC values, the so-called quantum noise, are much less analyzed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Damiano Marian , Enrique Colomés , Zhen Zhan , Xavier Oriols

We investigate the dephasing of mesoscopic interferences by electron-electron interactions in a strictly one-dimensional geometry composed of two weakly-coupled (clean and very long) Luttinger liquids. The main goal of this paper is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karyn Le Hur

We derive an expression for the phase shift of an atom interferometer in a gravitational field taking into account both the finite duration of the light pulses and the effect of a small perturbing potential added to a stronger uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Bertoldi , F. Minardi , M. Prevedelli