{
  "id": "1506.09028",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-06-30T10:59:45.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-06-30T10:59:45.000Z",
  "title": "Single-electron coherence: finite temperature versus pure dephasing",
  "authors": [
    "Michael Moskalets",
    "Géraldine Haack"
  ],
  "comment": "17 pages, 6 figures, invited contribution to a special issue in Physica E on \"Frontiers in quantum electronic transport\" - in memory of Markus B\\\"uttiker",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We analyze a coherent injection of single electrons on top of the Fermi sea in two situations, at finite-temperature and in presence of pure dephasing. Both finite-temperature and pure dephasing change the property of the injected quantum states from pure to mixed. However, we show that the temperature-induced mixedness does not alter the coherence properties of these single-electronic states. In particular two such mixed states exhibit perfect antibunching while colliding at an electronic wave splitter. This is in striking difference with the dephasing-induced mixedness which suppresses antibunching. On the contrary, a single-particle shot noise is suppressed at finite temperatures but is not affected by pure dephasing. This work therefore extends the investigation of the coherence properties of single-electronic states to the case of mixed states and clarifies the difference between different types of mixedness.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-06-30T10:59:45.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "finite temperature",
      "single-electron coherence",
      "single-electronic states",
      "coherence properties",
      "mixed states"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1016/j.physe.2015.09.002",
      "journal": "Physica E Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures",
      "year": 2016,
      "month": "Jan",
      "volume": 75,
      "pages": 358
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 17,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2016PhyE...75..358M"
    }
  }
}