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We report the experimental realization of a non-galvanic, primary thermometer capable of measuring the electron temperature of a two-dimensional electron gas with negligible thermal load. Such a thermometer consists of a quantum dot whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 P. Torresani , M. J. Martínez-Pérez , S. Gasparinetti , J. Renard , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto , S. De Franceschi

We investigate a quadruple quantum dot setup that can be employed to sense the temperature of an electrically isolated remote target reservoir. Such a setup was conceived earlier by S\'anchez et. al. (New Journal of Physics, 19, 113040) as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Sagnik Banerjee , Aniket Singha

Measuring the temperature of a two-dimensional electron gas at temperatures of a few mK is a challenging issue, which standard thermometry schemes may fail to tackle. We propose and analyze a nongalvanic thermometer, based on a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 S. Gasparinetti , M. J. Martínez-Pérez , S. de Franceschi , J. P. Pekola , F. Giazotto

We present a thermometry scheme to extract the temperature of a 2DEG by monitoring the charge occupation of a weakly tunnel-coupled 'thermometer' quantum dot using a quantum point contact detector. Electronic temperatures between 97 mK and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Mavalankar , S. J. Chorley , J. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , C. G. Smith

When a quantum dot is subjected to a thermal gradient, the temperature of electrons entering the dot can be determined from the dot's thermocurrent if the conductance spectrum and background temperature are known. We demonstrate this…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-07 E. A. Hoffmann , H. A. Nilsson , J. E. Matthews , N. Nakpathomkun , A. I. Persson , L. Samuelson , H. Linke

We provide a detailed description of the quantum interferometric thermometer, which is a device that estimates the temperature of a sample from the measurements of the optical phase. For the first time, we rigorously analyze the operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Marcin Jarzyna , Marcin Zwierz

Temperature estimation, known as thermometry, is a critical sensing task for physical systems operating in the quantum regime. Indeed, thermal fluctuations can significantly degrade quantum coherence. Therefore, accurately determining the…

We present a method for the measurement of a temperature differential across a single quantum dot that has transmission resonances that are separated in energy by much more than the thermal energy. We determine numerically that the method…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 E. A. Hoffmann , N. Nakpathomkun , A. I. Persson , H. A. Nilsson , L. Samuelson , H. Linke

Resonant laser spectroscopy of a negatively charged self-assembled quantum dot is utilized to measure the temperature of a three dimensional fermionic reservoir down to 100mK. With a magnetic field applied to the quantum dot the single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Florian Haupt , Atac Imamoglu , Martin Kroner

Reflection measurements give access to the complex impedance of a material on a wide frequency range. This is of interest to study the dynamical properties of various materials, for instance disordered superconductors. However reflection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Diener , F. Couëdo , C. Marrache-Kikuchi , M. Aprili , J. Gabelli

The rapidly developing quantum technologies and thermodynamics have put forward a requirement to precisely control and measure the temperature of microscopic matter at the quantum level. Many quantum thermometry schemes have been proposed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Ning Zhang , Chong Chen , Si-Yuan Bai , Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

A theoretical proposal that Coulomb-coupled quantum dots can be used as quantum probes to determine the temperature of a sample (i.e., an electronic reservoir) is proposed. Through the regulation of the positive or negative voltage bias in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yanchao Zhang , Jincan Chen

We study a three-terminal setup consisting of a single-level quantum dot capacitively coupled to a quantum point contact. The point contact connects to a source and drain reservoirs while the quantum dot is coupled to a single base…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Jing Yang , Cyril Elouard , Janine Splettstoesser , Björn Sothmann , Rafael Sánchez , Andrew N. Jordan

The performance and accuracy of quantum electronics is substantially degraded when the temperature of the electrons in the devices is too high. The electron temperature can be reduced with appropriate thermal anchoring and by filtering both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Joost van der Heijden

Temperature is a fundamental parameter in the study of physical phenomena. At the nanoscale, local temperature differences can be harnessed to design novel thermal nanoelectronic devices or test quantum thermodynamical concepts. Determining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Imtiaz Ahmed , Anasua Chatterjee , Sylvain Barraud , John J. L. Morton , James A. Haigh , M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba

We present measurements of the electron temperature using gate defined quantum dots formed in a GaAs 2D electron gas in both direct transport and charge sensing mode. Decent agreement with the refrigerator temperature was observed over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 D. Maradan , L. Casparis , T. -M. Liu , D. E. F. Biesinger , C. P. Scheller , D. M. Zumbühl , J. Zimmerman , A. C. Gossard

We theoretically study how one can control and enhance nonlinear thermoelectricity by regulating quantum coherence in nanostructures such as a quantum dot system or a single-molecule junction. In nanostructures, the typical temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Nobuhiko Taniguchi

Accurate temperature estimation in the quantum and cryogenic regimes remains a fundamental challenge. Here, we investigate nonequilibrium quantum thermometry using a single-qubit probe coupled to a bosonic bath through noncommuting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Youssef Aiache , Abderrahim El Allati , İlkay Demir , Khadija El Anouz

We investigate the sensing performance of a single-qubit quantum thermometer within a non-Markovian dynamical framework. By employing an exactly numerical hierarchical equations of the motion method, we go beyond traditional paradigms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Wei Wu

Fast feedback from cryogenic electrical characterization measurements is key for the development of scalable quantum computing technology. At room temperature, high-throughput device testing is accomplished with a probe-based solution,…

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