Pseudorandom binary injection of levitons for electron quantum optics

D. C Glattli (1) , P. Roulleau (1)

1 GNE - Groupe Nano-Electronique

The recent realization of single electron sources lets envision performing electron quantum optics experiments, where electrons can be viewed as flying qubits propagating in a ballistic conductor. To date, all electron sources operate in a periodic electron injection mode leading to energy spectrum singularities in various physical observables which sometime hide the bare nature of physical effects. To go beyond, we propose a spread-spectrum approach where electron flying qubits are injected in a non-periodic manner following a pseudo-random binary bit pattern. Extending the Floquet scattering theory approach from periodic to spread-spectrum drive, the shot noise of pseudo-random binary sequences of single electron injection can be calculated for leviton and non-leviton sources. Our new approach allows to disentangle the physics of the manipulated excitations from that of the injection protocol. In particular, the spread spectrum approach is shown to provide a better knowledge of electronic Hong Ou Mandel correlations and to clarify the nature of the pulse train coherence and the role of the dynamical orthogonality catastrophe for non-integer charge injection.

Domaines: Physique [physics]

D. C Glattli, P. Roulleau. Pseudorandom binary injection of levitons for electron quantum optics. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2018, 97 (12), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.97.125407⟩. ⟨hal-01872956⟩