Statistics of radiation emitted from a quantum point contact
Abstract
We analyze the statistics of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from electrons pushed through a quantum point contact. We consider a setup implemented in a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas where the radiation manifests itself in terms of 2D-plasmons/photons emitted from electrons scattered at the point contact. The bosonic statistics of the photons compete with the fermionic statistics of the electrons; as a result, the quantum point contact emits nonclassical radiation with a statistics which can be tuned from bunching to anti-bunching by changing the driving voltage. Our perturbative calculation of the irreducible two-photon probability correlator provides us with information on the statistical nature of the emitted photons and on the underlying electronic current flow.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.155421
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvB..81o5421L
- Keywords:
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- 73.50.Td;
- 42.50.Ar;
- 73.23.-b;
- Noise processes and phenomena;
- Photon statistics and coherence theory;
- Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems