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Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) coupled to quantum dots (QDs), trapped atoms and ions, and point defects have been proposed as quantum transduction platforms, yet the requisite coupling rates and cavity lifetimes have not been experimentally…

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

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…

Charge carrier transport is pivotal in advancing nanoelectronics. Despite progress in exciton transport within ultra-thin semiconductors, the intertwined transport of free carriers and excitons presents challenges. Surface Acoustic Waves…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xueqian Sun , Shuyao Qiu , Hao Qin , Yuerui Lu

In the same way that micro-mechanical resonators resemble guitar strings and drums, Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) resemble the sound these instruments produce, but moving over a solid surface rather than through air. In contrast with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Martin Gustafsson , Paulo V. Santos , Göran Johansson , Per Delsing

We investigate the propagation of a piezoelectric surface acoustic wave (SAW) across a GaAs/Al$_X$Ga$_{1-X}$As heterostructure surface, on which there is fixed a metallic split-gate. Our method is based on a finite element formulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rahman , M. Kataoka , C. H. W. Barnes , H. P. Langtangen

Numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes, Nernst-Planck, and the Poisson equations are employed to describe the transport processes in an aqueous electrolyte in a parallel-plate nanochannel, where surface-acoustic waves (SAWs) are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-24 Mathias Dietzel , Steffen Hardt

It has recently been demonstrated that surface acoustic waves (SAWs) can interact with superconducting qubits at the quantum level. SAW resonators in the GHz frequency range have also been found to have low loss at temperatures compatible…

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

Single-photon sources are essential building blocks in quantum photonic networks, where quantum-mechanical properties of photons are utilised to achieve quantum technologies such as quantum cryptography and quantum computing. Most…

We have investigated the response of the acoustoelectric current driven by a surface-acoustic wave through a quantum point contact in the closed-channel regime. Under proper conditions, the current develops plateaus at integer multiples of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 P. Utko , J. Bindslev Hansen , P. E. Lindelof , C. B. Sorensen , K. Gloos

We report on non-adiabatic transport through a double quantum dot under irradiation of surface acoustic waves generated on-chip. At low excitation powers, absorption and emission of single and multiple phonons is observed. At higher power,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. M. Naber , T. Fujisawa , H. W. Liu , W. G. van der Wiel

The ability to transport single electrons on a quantum dot array dramatically increases the freedom in designing quantum computation schemes that can be implemented on solid-state devices. So far, however, routing schemes to precisely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Takeru Utsugi , Takuma Kuno , Noriyuki Lee , Ryuta Tsuchiya , Toshiyuki Mine , Digh Hisamoto , Shinichi Saito , Hiroyuki Mizuno

Quantum communication networks require on-chip transfer and manipulation of single particles as well as their interconversion to single photons for long-range information exchange. Flying excitons propelled by GHz surface acoustic waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 M. Yuan , K. Biermann , S. Takada , C. Bäuerle , P. V. Santos

Acousto-electric charge conveyance induced by a surface acoustic wave is employed to dissociate photogenerated excitons. Over macroscopic distances, both electrons and holes are injected \emph{sequentially} into a remotely positioned,…

We propose and analyze a solid-state platform based on surface acoustic waves (SAWs) for trapping, cooling and controlling (charged) particles, as well as the simulation of quantum many-body systems. We develop a general theoretical…

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…

On-chip quantum information processing requires controllable quantum light sources that can be operated on-demand at high-speeds and with the possibility of in-situ control of the photon emission wavelength and its optical polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 S. Lazic , E. Chernysheva , A. Hernández-Mínguez , P. V. Santos , H. P. van der Meulen

Controlling the frequency of nonclassical light is indispensable for implementing quantum computation, communication and bridging various quantum systems. However, frequency-shift devices for solid state single-photon sources that are easy…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-09 Jiaxing Guo , Huijun Zhao , Kaili Xiong , Pingxing Chen , Yang Zhang , Yan Chen

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