Detecting Non-Abelian Statistics in the nu=5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
In this letter we propose an interferometric experiment to detect non-Abelian quasiparticle statistics -- one of the hallmark characteristics of the Moore-Read state expected to describe the observed FQHE plateau at nu=5/2. The implications for using this state for constructing a topologically protected qubit as has been recently proposed by Das Sarma et. al. are also addressed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508616,
title = {Detecting Non-Abelian Statistics in the nu=5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State},
author = {Parsa Bonderson and Alexei Kitaev and Kirill Shtengel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508616},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 eps figures v2: A few minor changes and citation corrections. In particular, the connection to cond-mat/9711087 has been clarified. v3: Minor changes: fixed references to Fig. 2, updated citations, changed a few words to conform to the version published in PRL