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Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are a reliable solution to transport single electrons with precision in piezoelectric semiconductor devices. Recently, highly efficient single-electron transport with a strongly compressed single-cycle acoustic…

We develop a coherent beam splitter for single electrons driven through two tunnel-coupled quantum wires by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The output current through each wire oscillates with gate voltages to tune the tunnel-coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 R. Ito , S. Takada , A. Ludwig , A. D. Wieck , S. Tarucha , M. Yamamoto

Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) have been utilized to investigate the properties of a two-dimensional electron system, subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and monochromatic microwave radiation, in the regime where the so-called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Benedikt Friess , Ivan A. Dmitriev , Vladimir Umansky , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West , Klaus von Klitzing , Jurgen H. Smet

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) become a popular driving source in modern condensed matter physics, but most existing theories simplify them as electric fields and ignore the non-uniform Brillouin zone folding effect. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Zi-Qian Zhou , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Cong Xiao , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We present a detailed study of the surface acoustic wave mediated quantized transport of electrons through a split gate device containing an impurity potential defined quantum dot within the split gate channel. A new regime of quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. E. Fletcher , J. Ebbecke , T. J. B. M. Janssen , F. J. Ahlers , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

The acoustoelectric current induced by a surface acoustic wave (SAW) in a ballistic quantum point contact is considered using a quantum approach. We find that the current is of the "pumping" type and is not related to drag, i.e. to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Levinson , O. Entin-Wohlman , P. Woelfle

Single-electron transport driven by surface acoustic waves (SAW) through a narrow constriction, formed in two-dimensional electron gas, is studied theoretically. Due to long-range Coulomb interaction, the tunneling coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karsten Flensberg , Qian Niu , Michael Pustilnik

We present the experimental realization of different approaches to increase the amount of quantized current which is driven by surface acoustic waves through split gate structures in a two dimensional electron gas. Samples with driving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ebbecke , G. Bastian , M. Blöcker , K. Pierz , F. J. Ahlers

The interaction of surface acoustic waves (SAW) with $p$-type Si/Si$_{0.87}$Ge$_{0.13}$ heterostructures has been studied for SAW frequencies of 30-300 MHz. For temperatures in the range 0.7$<T<$1.6 K and magnetic fields up to 7 T, the SAW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. L. Drichko , A. M. Diakonov , I. Yu. Smirnov , G. O. Andrianov , O. A. Mironov , M. Myronov , D. R. Leadley , T. E. Whall

Surface acoustic waves (SAW) and associated SAW devices are ideal for sensing, metrology, and connecting and controlling hybrid quantum devices. While the advances demonstrated to date are largely based on electromechanical coupling, a…

We study the injection mechanism of a single electron from a static quantum dot into a moving quantum dot created in a long depleted channel with surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We demonstrate that such a process is characterized by an…

The authors report surface-acoustic-wave-driven luminescence from a lateral p-n junction formed by molecular beam epitaxy regrowth of a modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well on a patterned GaAs substrate. Surface-acoustic-wave-driven…

We present an experimental study of a 2.5 GHz electron pump based on the quantized acoustoelectric current driven by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) through a shallow-etched point contact in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. At low temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Utko , K. Gloos , J. B. Hansen , P. E. Lindelof

We study the carrier injection into a single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot regulated by a radio frequency surface acoustic wave. We find that the time of laser excitation during the acoustic cycle programs both the emission intensities and time…

A versatile stroboscopic technique based on active phase-locking of a surface acoustic wave to picosecond laser pulses is used to monitor dynamic acoustoelectric effects. Time-integrated multi-channel detection is applied to probe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 S. Völk , F. Knall , F. J. R. Schülein , T. A. Truong , H. Kim , P. M. Petroff , A. Wixforth , H. J. Krenner

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) enable a wide array of technologies including RF filters, chemical and biological sensors, acousto-optic devices, acoustic control of microfluidic flow in lab-on-a-chip systems, and quantum phononics. While…

In recent years, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have emerged as a novel technique for generating quasiparticle transport and band modulation in condensed matter systems. SAWs interact with adjacent materials through piezoelectric and strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Yicheng Mou , Jiayu Wang , Haonan Chen , Yingchao Xia , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Xue Jiang , Yijia Wu , Wu Shi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , Cheng Zhang

The displacement of a single electron enables exciting avenues for nanotechnology with vast application potential in quantum metrology, quantum communication and quantum computation. Surface acoustic waves (SAW) have proven itself as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Junliang Wang , Hermann Edlbauer , Baptiste Jadot , Tristan Meunier , Shintaro Takada , Christopher Bäuerle , Hermann Sellier

The propagation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the case where the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is subject to a strong magnetic field and a smooth random potential with correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Knaebchen , Yehoshua Levinson , Ora Entin-Wohlman

We report on the modulation of indirect excitons (IXs) as well as their transport by moving periodic potentials produced by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The potential modulation induced by the SAW strain modifies both the band gap and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Adriano Violante , Kobi Cohen , Snežana Lazić , Rudolph Hey , Ronen Rapaport , Paulo Ventura Santos