Title
Photon-Assisted Shot Noise in Graphene in the Terahertz Range
Date Issued
02 June 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Parmentier F.D.
Roulleau P.
Glattli D.C.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
When subjected to electromagnetic radiation, the fluctuation of the electronic current across a quantum conductor increases. This additional noise, called photon-assisted shot noise, arises from the generation and subsequent partition of electron-hole pairs in the conductor. The physics of photon-assisted shot noise has been thoroughly investigated at microwave frequencies up to 20 GHz, and its robustness suggests that it could be extended to the terahertz (THz) range. Here, we present measurements of the quantum shot noise generated in a graphene nanoribbon subjected to a THz radiation. Our results show signatures of photon-assisted shot noise, further demonstrating that hallmark time-dependant quantum transport phenomena can be transposed to the THz range.
Volume
116
Issue
22
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84973349098
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
0031-9007
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the French ANR (ANR-11-NANO-0004 Metrograph) the ERC (ERC-2008-AdG MEQUANO), and the CEA (Projet phare ZeroPOVA).
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