Speaker
Patrick Hofer
(Uni Genève)
Description
We theoretically investigate different aspects of dynamic mesoscopic conductors with the ultimate goal of contributing to the development of quantum technologies. Key results include: demonstrating that a single-electron partitioned at a beam-splitter is entangled and therefore possibly useful for quantum computation, developing a theory of joint electron waiting times and using it to describe single-electron excitations, shedding light on the non-classicality of negative values in the full counting statistics, proposing heat engines that rely on the wave-nature of electrons and on the particle-nature of photons, and proposing a refrigerator which exhibits coherence-enhanced cooling.
Author
Patrick Hofer
(Uni Genève)
