Suppression of the radiation squeezing in interacting quantum Hall edge channels

TL;DR

This paper investigates how electron-electron interactions in quantum Hall edge channels suppress radiation squeezing, comparing different drives and highlighting the robustness of Lorentzian pulses for quantum information applications.

Contribution

It reveals the impact of interactions on quantum radiation squeezing and demonstrates the resilience of Lorentzian pulse-driven squeezing in quantum Hall systems.

Findings

Interactions suppress quantum squeezing in emitted radiation.

Lorentzian drive maintains robust squeezing despite interactions.

Quantum features are observable via current fluctuations at finite frequency.

Abstract

We study the quantum fluctuations of the two quadratures of the emitted electromagnetic radiation generated by a quantum Hall device in a quantum point contact geometry. In particular, we focus our attention on the role played by the unavoidable electron-electron interactions between the two edge channels at filling factor two. We investigate quantum features of the emitted microwave radiation, such as squeezing, by studying the current fluctuations at finite frequency, accessible through a two-filters set-up placed just after the quantum point contact. We compare two different drives, respectively a cosine and a train of Lorentzian pulses, used for the injection of the excitations into the system. In both cases quantum features are reduced due to the interactions, however the Lorentzian drive is still characterized by a robust squeezing effect which can have important application on quantum information.