Controlled dephasing of electrons by non-gaussian shot noise

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 534-537

  Neder, Izhar ^a   Marquardt, Florian ^b   Heiblum, Moty ^a   Mahalu, Diana ^a   Umansky, Vladimir ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PHASE COMPARATORS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS;

FULL COUNTING STATISTICS; GAUSSIANS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; NON-GAUSSIAN; PATH DETECTIONS; QUANTUM SYSTEM; QUBIT DECOHERENCE; WEAK INTERACTIONS;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 34547627636     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys627     Document Type: Article

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