Interferometry has underpinned a century of discoveries, ranging from the disproval of the ether theory to the detection of gravitational waves, offering insights into wave dynamics with unrivalled precision through the measurement of phase relationships. In electronics, phase-sensitive measurements can probe the nature of transmissive topological and quantum states, but are only possible using complex device structures in magnetic fields. Here we demonstrate electronic interferometry in a single-molecule device through the study of non-equilibrium Fano resonances. We show the phase difference between an electronic orbital and a coupled Fabry-Perot resonance are tuneable through electric fields, and consequently it is possible to read out quantum information in the smallest devices, offering new avenues for the coherent manipulation down to single molecules.
@article{arxiv.2411.11243,
title = {Electron Phase Detection in Single Molecules by Interferometry},
author = {Zhixin Chen and Jie-Ren Deng and Mengyun Wang and Nikolaos Farmakidis and Jonathan Baugh and Harish Bhaskaran and Jan A. Mol and Harry L. Anderson and Lapo Bogani and James O. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11243},
year = {2025}
}