Dynamical control of interference using voltage pulses in the quantum regime

Benoit Gaury and Xavier Waintal ()
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Benoit Gaury: CEA-INAC/UJF Grenoble 1, SPSMS UMR-E 9001
Xavier Waintal: CEA-INAC/UJF Grenoble 1, SPSMS UMR-E 9001

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract As a general trend, nanoelectronics experiments are shifting towards frequencies so high that they become comparable to the device’s internal characteristic time scales, resulting in new opportunities for studying the dynamical aspects of quantum mechanics. Here we theoretically study how a voltage pulse (in the quantum regime) propagates through an electronic interferometer (Fabry–Perot or Mach–Zehnder). We show that extremely fast pulses provide a conceptually new tool for manipulating quantum information: the possibility to dynamically engineer the interference pattern of a quantum system. Striking physical signatures are associated with this new regime: restoration of the interference in presence of large bias voltages; negative currents with respect to the direction of propagation of the voltage pulse; and oscillation of the total transmitted charge with the total number of injected electrons. The present findings have been made possible by the recent unlocking of our capability for simulating time-resolved quantum nanoelectronics of large systems.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4844

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