Charging energy effects on a single-edge anyon braiding detector
Abstract
We investigate the influence of capacitive coupling on the detection of anyon braiding in a single-edge interferometer realized in the fractional quantum Hall regime. In this setup, a quantum point contact bends a single edge into a loop, where tunneling occurs at the open end and is controlled by the QPC voltage. In contrast with previously studied two-edge geometries, the weak backscattering regime is dominated by the first-order perturbative term, allowing quantum transport quantities to factorize into a non-universal prefactor and a braiding-induced contribution that provides direct access to the universal statistical angle . While previous analyses neglected edge-to-edge capacitance, we show that capacitive effects, which are known to play a crucial role in mesoscopic capacitors, modify both the current and the current cross-correlations. Using a two-point Green's function formalism augmented by Dyson's equation to include the charging energy, we quantify how the fluctuations of the cross-correlations depend simultaneously on and on the capacitance of the loop. Our results indicate that a reliable extraction of the statistical angle requires a parallel measurement of the loop capacitance, which can be implemented via a charged gate coupled to the junction.
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@article{arxiv.2601.23042,
title = {Charging energy effects on a single-edge anyon braiding detector},
author = {Noé Demazure and Flavio Ronetti and Benoît Grémaud and Laurent Raymond and Masayuki Hashisaka and Takeo Kato and Thierry Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.23042},
year = {2026}
}
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14 pages, 4 figures, comments are welcome !