Direct access to quantum fluctuations through cross-correlation measurements

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2011-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/1112.2693v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Added discussion of the time scales in the introduction and one figure. 14 pages, 8 figures

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Detection of the quantum fluctuations by conventional methods meets certain obstacles, since it requires high frequency measurements. Moreover, quantum fluctuations are normally dominated by classical noise, and are usually further obstructed by various accompanying effects such as a detector backaction. In present work, we demonstrate that these difficulties can be bypassed by performing the cross-correlation measurements. We propose to use a pair of two-level detectors, weakly coupled to a collective mode of an electric circuit. Fluctuations of the current source accumulated in the collective mode induce stochastic transitions in the detectors. These transitions are then read off by quantum point contact (QPC) electrometers and translated into two telegraph processes in the QPC currents. Since both detectors interact with the same collective mode, this leads to a certain fraction of the correlated transitions. These correlated transitions are fingerprinted in the cross-correlations of the telegraph processes, which can be detected at zero frequency, i.e., with a long time measurements. Concerning the dependance of the cross-correlator on the detectors' energy splittings, the most interesting region is at the degeneracy points, where it exhibits a sharp non-local resonance, that stems from higher order processes. We find that at certain conditions the main contribution to this resonance comes from the quantum noise. Namely, while the resonance line shape is weakly broadened by the classical noise, the height of the peak is directly proportional to the square of the quantum component of the noise spectral function.

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