Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Unveiling the bosonic nature of an ultrashort few-electron pulse

  • Gregoire Roussely,
  • Everton Arrighi,
  • Giorgos Georgiou,
  • Shintaro Takada,
  • Martin Schalk,
  • Matias Urdampilleta,
  • Arne Ludwig,
  • Andreas D. Wieck,
  • Pacome Armagnat,
  • Thomas Kloss,
  • Xavier Waintal,
  • Tristan Meunier,
  • Christopher Bäuerle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05203-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Electronic excitations in low-dimensional quantum nanoelectronic devices are collective waves that are strongly affected by the Coulomb interaction. Here, the authors demonstrate that they are able to prepare these collective excitations down to the single electron level and control their propagation.