Coherent control of single electrons: a review of current progress

C Bäuerle, DC Glattli, T Meunier, F Portier… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this report we review the present state of the art of the control of propagating quantum
states at the single-electron level and its potential application to quantum information …

Single-electron current sources: Toward a refined definition of the ampere

JP Pekola, OP Saira, VF Maisi, A Kemppinen… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
The control of electrons at the level of the elementary charge e was demonstrated
experimentally already in the 1980s. Ever since, the production of an electrical current ef, or …

A Thouless quantum pump with ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical superlattice

M Lohse, C Schweizer, O Zilberberg, M Aidelsburger… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Topological charge pumping enables the transport of charge through an adiabatic cyclic
evolution of the underlying Hamiltonian. In contrast to classical transport, the transported …

Topological Thouless pumping of ultracold fermions

S Nakajima, T Tomita, S Taie, T Ichinose, H Ozawa… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
An electron gas in a one-dimensional periodic potential can be transported even in the
absence of a voltage bias if the potential is slowly and periodically modulated in time …

Quantum Mpemba effect in a quantum dot with reservoirs

AK Chatterjee, S Takada, H Hayakawa - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate the quantum Mpemba effect in a quantum dot coupled to two reservoirs,
described by the Anderson model. We show that the system temperatures starting from two …

Coherence and indistinguishability of single electrons emitted by independent sources

E Bocquillon, V Freulon, JM Berroir, P Degiovanni… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The on-demand emission of coherent and indistinguishable electrons by independent
synchronized sources is a challenging task of quantum electronics, in particular regarding its …

Self-oscillating pump in a topological dissipative atom–cavity system

D Dreon, A Baumgärtner, X Li, S Hertlein, T Esslinger… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Pumps are transport mechanisms in which direct currents result from a cyclic evolution of the
potential,. As Thouless showed, the pumping process can have topological origins, when …

Towards a quantum representation of the ampere using single electron pumps

SP Giblin, M Kataoka, JD Fletcher, P See… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Electron pumps generate a macroscopic electric current by controlled manipulation of single
electrons. Despite intensive research towards a quantum current standard over the last 25 …

Topological charge pumping in a one-dimensional optical lattice

L Wang, M Troyer, X Dai - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
A topological charge pump transfers charge in a quantized fashion. The quantization is
stable against the detailed form of the pumping protocols and external noises and shares …

Semiconductor-based electron flying qubits: review on recent progress accelerated by numerical modelling

H Edlbauer, J Wang, T Crozes, P Perrier… - EPJ Quantum …, 2022 - epjqt.epj.org
The progress of charge manipulation in semiconductor-based nanoscale devices opened
up a novel route to realise a flying qubit with a single electron. In the present review, we …