A highly-sensitive broadband superconducting thermoelectric single-photon detector

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02933v1
• Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 17:08:36 GMT
• Title: A highly-sensitive broadband superconducting thermoelectric single-photon detector
• Authors: Federico Paolucci and Gaia Germanese and Alessandro Braggio and Francesco Giazotto
• Abstract summary: A thermoelectric detector (TED) converts a finite temperature difference caused by the absorption of a single photon into an open circuit thermovoltage. Our TED is able to reveal single-photons of frequency ranging from about 15 GHz to about 150 PHz depending on the chosen design and materials.
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• Abstract: We propose a passive single-photon detector based on the bipolar thermoelectric effect occurring in tunnel junctions between two different superconductors thanks to spontaneous electron-hole symmetry breaking. Our thermoelectric detector (TED) converts a finite temperature difference caused by the absorption of a single photon into an open circuit thermovoltage. Designed with feasible parameters, our TED is able to reveal single-photons of frequency ranging from about 15 GHz to about 150 PHz depending on the chosen design and materials. In particular, this detector is expected to show values of signal-to-noise ratio SNR about 15 at {\nu} = 50 GHz when operated at a temperature of 10 mK. Interestingly, this device can be viewed as a digital single-photon detector, since it generates an almost constant voltage VS for the full operation energies. Our TED can reveal single photons in a frequency range wider than 4 decades with the possibility to discern the energy of the incident photon by measuring the time persistence of the generated thermovoltage. Its broadband operation suggests that our TED could find practical applications in several fields of quantum science and technology, such as quantum computing, telecommunications, optoelectronics, THz spectroscopy and astro-particle physics.

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