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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 4: Transport: Topological Insulators (jointly with DS, MA, HL, O)

MA 4.8: Talk

Monday, March 20, 2017, 11:30–11:45, HSZ 204

Single-electron injection in the edge states of a 2D topological insulator — •Giacomo Dolcetto and Thomas Schmidt — Physics and Materials Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg

The realization of single-electron sources in integer quantum Hall systems has paved the way for exploring electronic quantum optics experiments in solid-state devices. Recently, two-dimensional topological insulators have also been considered as an interesting playground for implementing electron quantum optics. Here, two electron waveguides emerge at the edge, one for spin-up and one for spin-down electrons. Scattering between the two channels is strongly suppressed and phase-coherent ballistic transport is predicted. In this talk I will characterize the injection of single Kramers pairs from a mesoscopic capacitor: a periodic voltage drive results in the emission of periodic trains of electron and hole Kramers pairs. Due to spin-momentum locking and to the geometry of the device, the injected state is in general a superposition of many different orthogonal states, thus representing an interesting playground not only to study the transport properties, but also to investigate and to measure the entanglement production.