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Dynamical resurrection of the visibility in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2011-10-27 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study a single-electron pulse injected into the chiral edge-state of a quantum Hall device and subject to a capacitive Coulomb interaction. We find that the scattered multi-particle state remains unentangled and hence can be created itself by a suitable classical voltage-pulse V(t)V(t). The application of the inverse pulse V(t)-V(-t) corrects for the shake-up due to the interaction and resurrects the original injected wave packet. We suggest an experiment with an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer where the application of such pulses manifests itself in an improved visibility.

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@article{arxiv.1103.4046,
  title  = {Dynamical resurrection of the visibility in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer},
  author = {A. V. Lebedev and G. Blatter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4046},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure