An electronic quantum eraser

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 344; no. 6190; pp. 1363 - 1366
• Main Authors: Weisz, E., Choi, H. K., Sivan, I., Heiblum, M., Gefen, Y., Mahalu, D., Umansky, V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 20.06.2014; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Autocorrelation; Electric current; Electronic Equipment; Electronics; Electrons; Erasers; Magnetic fields; Microscopes; Microscopy; Particle physics; Photons; Quantum complementarity; Quantum mechanics; Quantum physics; researchers; Solid state devices

The quantum eraser is a device that illustrates the quantum principle of complementarity and shows how a dephased system can regain its lost quantum behavior by erasing the "which-path" information already obtained about it. Thus far, quantum erasers were constructed predominantly in optic...