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Charge transfer statistics in symmetric fractional edge-state Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-05-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We have studied the zero-temperature statistics of charge transfer between the two edges of Quantum Hall liquids with filling factors ν0,1=1/(2m0,1+1)\nu_{0,1}=1/(2 m_{0,1}+1) forming Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The known Bethe ansatz solution for symmetric interferometer is used to obtain the cumulant-generating function of charge at constant voltage VV between the edges. Its low-VV behavior can be interpreted in terms of electron tunneling, while its large-VV asymptotics reproduces the mm-state dynamics (m1+m0+m1m\equiv 1+m_{0}+m_{1}) of quasiparticles with fractional (for m>1m>1) charge and statistics. We also analyze the transition region between electrons and quasiparticles.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2402,
  title  = {Charge transfer statistics in symmetric fractional edge-state Mach-Zehnder interferometer},
  author = {Vadim V. Ponomarenko and Dmitri V. Averin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2402},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 two-column pages in RevTex4, 2 eps figures, final version with corrected misprints, references, and introduction as appeared in PRB Rapid Comm