Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2006-11-14
New Journal of Physics 9, 112 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
25 pages, 7 figures, submitted to New Journal of Physics
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/9/5/112
A non-perturbative treatment is developed for the dephasing produced by the shot noise of a one- dimensional electron channel. It is applied to two systems: a charge qubit and the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, both of them interacting with an adjacent partitioned electronic channel acting as a detector. We find that the visibility (interference contrast) can display oscillations as a function of detector voltage and interaction time. This is a unique consequence of the non-Gaussian properties of the shot noise, and only occurs in the strong coupling regime, when the phase contributed by a single electron exceeds pi. The resulting formula reproduces the recent surprising experimental observations reported in [I. Neder et al., cond-mat/0610634], and indicates a general explanation for similar visibility oscillations observed earlier in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer at large bias voltage. We explore in detail the full pattern of oscillations as a function of coupling strength, voltage and time, which might be observable in future experiments.
Marquardt Florian
Neder Izhar
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