Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlations to probe the population statistics of GHz photons emitted by conductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Gabelli, J ^a   Reydellet, L H ^b   Feve G ^a   Berroir, J M ^a   Placais B ^a   Roche, P ^b   Glattli, D C ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; CRYOGENICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RESISTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM;

CRYOGENIC ELECTRONICS; HANBURY BROWN AND TWISS (HBT); QUANTUM CIRCUITS; RADIO FREQUENCY GENERATORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 69349106513     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.056801     Document Type: Article

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