Experimental determination of the statistics of photons emitted by a tunnel junction.
We report on an Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment probing the statistics of microwave photons emitted by a tunnel junction in the shot-noise regime at low temperature. By measuring the cross correlation of the fluctuations of the occupation numbers of the photon modes of both detection branches, we show that while the statistics of electrons is Poissonian, the photons obey chaotic statistics. This is observed even for low photon occupation number when the voltage across the junction is close to hν/e.
Zakka-Bajjani
Eva
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Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé/IRAMIS/DSM (CNRS URA 2464), CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Dufouleur
J
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Coulombel
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Roche
P
P
Glattli
D C
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Portier
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