Antibunched photons emitted by a quantum point contact out of equilibrium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Beenakker, C W J ^a   Schomerus, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FERMI LEVEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PHOTONS; RESISTORS; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; VECTORS;

FERMI SEA; PHOTON EXCITATIONS; POISSION STATISTICS; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT (QPC);

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 19544373445     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett93.096801     Document Type: Article

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