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The quantum coherence of electronic quasiparticles underpins many of the emerging transport properties of conductors at small scales. Novel electronic implementations of quantum optics devices are now available with perspectives such as…

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Chiral quantum optics has become a burgeoning field due to its potential applications in quantum networks or quantum simulation of many-body physics. Current implementations are based on the interplay between local polarization and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo , Chao Wan , David Zueco , Alejandro González-Tudela

We consider effects of the interaction between electrons drifting along the opposite sides of a narrow sample under the conditions of the quantum Hall effect. A spatial variation of this interaction leads to backward scattering of…

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Ballistic transport of hot electrons in a quantum Hall edge channel is attractive for studying electronic analog of quantum optics, where the edge potential profile is an important parameter that governs the charge velocity and scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Shunya Akiyama , Taichi Hirasawa , Yuya Sato , Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

In analogy with quantum optics, short time correlations of the current fluctuations are used to characterize an on-demand electron source consisting of a quantum dot connected to a conductor via a tunable tunnel barrier. We observe a new…

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I. Introduction II. Electrons at the Fermi level III. Conductance quantization of a quantum point contact IV. Optical analogue of the conductance quantization V. Classical electron focusing VI. Electron focusing as a transmission problem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 H. van Houten , C. W. J. Beenakker

Using quantum theory, we study the propagation of an optical field in an inhomogeneous dielectric, and apply this scheme to traveling optical fields in a waveguide. We introduce a field-atom interaction Hamiltonian and derive the refractive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 Akira Kitagawa

Free electrons are a widespread and universal source of electromagnetic fields. The past decades witnessed ever-growing control over many aspects of electron-generated radiation, from the incoherent emission produced by X-ray tubes to the…

This article reviews the development of photonic analogues of quantum Hall effects, which have given rise to broad interest in topological phenomena in photonic systems over the past decade. We cover early investigations of geometric…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-30 Daniel Leykam , Daria Smirnova

We examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on transport between edge states in a multilayer integer quantum Hall system. The edge states of such a system, coupled by interlayer tunneling, form a two-dimensional, chiral metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

We consider the effect of electron-phonon interactions on edge states in quantum Hall systems with a single edge branch. The presence of electron-phonon interactions modifies the single-particle propagator for general quantum Hall edges,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Heinonen , Sebastian Eggert

We explore theoretically how the coupling to cavity vacuum fields affects the electron transport in quantum conductors due to the counter-rotating-wave terms of light-matter interaction. We determine the quantum conductance in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Geva Arwas , Cristiano Ciuti

We theoretically investigate electrical transport in a quantum Hall system hosting bulk and edge current carrying states. Spatially varying magnetic and electric confinement creates pairs of current carrying lines that drift in the same or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Puja Mondal , Alain Nogaret , Sankalpa Ghosh

We study light-matter interactions in the bulk of a two-dimensional photonic lattice system, where photons are subject to the combined effect of a synthetic magnetic field and an orthogonal synthetic electric field. In this configuration,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Daniele De Bernardis , Francesco Piccioli , Peter Rabl , Iacopo Carusotto

We investigate theoretically the quantum-coherence properties of the cathodoluminescence (CL) emission produced by a temporally modulated electron beam. Specifically, we consider the quantum-optical correlations of CL from electrons that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Ofer Kfir , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo , Claus Ropers

Electrons in a metal are indistinguishable particles that strongly interact with other electrons and their environment. Isolating and detecting a single flying electron after propagation to perform quantum optics like experiments at the…

Quantum opto- and electromechanical systems interface mechanical motion with the electromagnetic modes of optical resonators and microwave circuits. The capabilities and promise of these hybrid devices have been showcased through a variety…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Yiwen Chu , Simon Gröblacher

The realization of integrated quantum circuits requires precise on-chip control of charge carriers. Aiming at the coherent coupling of distant nanostructures at zero magnetic field, here we study the ballistic electron transport through two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jaan Freudenfeld , Max Geier , Vladimir Umansky , Piet W. Brouwer , Stefan Ludwig

The form of an effective electron-electron interaction in a quantum wire with a large static dielectric constant is determined and the resulting properties of the electron liquid in such a one-dimensional system are described. The exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Byczuk , T. Dietl

We optically probe and electrically control a single artificial molecule containing a well defined number of electrons. Charge and spin dependent inter-dot quantum couplings are probed optically by adding a single electron-hole pair and…

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