Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1.
Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 8;3:2869. doi: 10.1038/srep02869.
We report the measurement of the fourth cumulant of current fluctuations in a tunnel junction under both dc and ac (microwave) excitation. This probes the non-Gaussian character of photo-assisted shot noise. Our measurement reveals the existence of correlations between noise power measured at two different frequencies, which corresponds to two-mode intensity correlations in optics. We observe positive correlations, i.e. photon bunching, which exist only for certain relations between the excitation frequency and the two detection frequencies, depending on the dc bias of the sample.
我们报告了在直流和交流(微波)激励下隧道结中电流涨落的四阶累积量的测量结果。这探测了光辅助散粒噪声的非高斯特性。我们的测量结果揭示了在两个不同频率下测量的噪声功率之间存在相关性,这对应于光学中的双模强度相关性。我们观察到了正相关,即光子聚束,这种现象仅在激励频率与两个探测频率之间存在特定关系时存在,这取决于样品的直流偏置。