Researchers produce the first experimental pulse-generation of a single electron—a leviton
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in France has produced the first experimental pulse-generation of a single electron—they've named it a leviton, in honor of physicist Leonid Levitov and its resemblance to a soliton. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they caused the leviton to come about and how it might be used in future applications.