Papers Published

1. Kim, J. and Benson, O. and Kan, H. and Yamamoto, Y., A single-photon turnstile device, Nature (UK), vol. 397 no. 6719 (1999), pp. 500 - 3 [17295] .
   (last updated on 2007/11/03)

   Abstract:
   Quantum-mechanical interference between indistinguishable quantum particles profoundly affects their arrival time and counting statistics. Photons from a thermal source tend to arrive together (bunching) and their counting distribution is broader than the classical Poisson limit. Electrons from a thermal source, on the other hand, tend to arrive separately (anti-bunching) and their counting distribution is narrower than the classical Poisson limit. Manipulation of quantum-statistical properties of photons with various non-classical sources is at the heart of quantum optics: features normally characteristic of fermions-such as anti-bunching, sub-Poissonian and squeezing (sub-shot-noise) behaviours-have now been demonstrated. A single-photon turnstile device was proposed to realize an effect similar to conductance quantization. Only one electron can occupy a single state owing to the Pauli exclusion principle and, for an electron waveguide that supports only one propagating transverse mode, this leads to the quantization of electrical conductance: the conductance of each propagating mode is then given by G_Q=e²/h (where e is the charge of the electron and h is Planck's constant;). Here we report experimental progress towards generation of a similar flow of single photons with a well regulated time interval

   Keywords:
   Coulomb blockade;mesoscopic systems;p-n junctions;quantum interference phenomena;quantum optics;semiconductor quantum wells;