Antibunched Photons from Inelastic Cooper-Pair Tunneling

作者:Leppakangas Juha*; Fogelstrom Mikael; Grimm Alexander; Hofheinz Max; Marthaler Michael; Johansson Goran
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115(2): 027004.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.027004

摘要

We demonstrate theoretically that charge transport across a Josephson junction, voltage-biased through a resistive environment, produces antibunched photons. We develop a continuous-mode description of the emitted radiation field in a semi-infinite transmission line terminated by the Josephson junction. Within a perturbative treatment in powers of the tunneling coupling across the Josephson junction, we capture effects originating in charging dynamics of consecutively tunneling Cooper pairs. We find that within a feasible experimental setup the Coulomb blockade provided by high zero-frequency impedance can be used to create antibunched photons at a very high rate and in a very versatile frequency window ranging from a few GHz to a THz.

  • 出版日期2015-7-8
  • 单位中国地震局