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Exactly Solved Model for an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-27 v2

Abstract

We study nonequilibrium properties of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer built from integer quantum Hall edge states at filling fraction ν=1\nu{=}1. For a model in which electrons interact only when they are inside the interferometer, we calculate exactly the visibility and phase of Aharonov-Bohm fringes at finite source-drain bias. When interactions are strong, we show that a lobe structure develops in visibility as a function of bias, while the phase of fringes is independent of bias, except near zeros of visibility. Both features match the results of recent experiments [Neder \textit{et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 016804 (2006)].

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@article{arxiv.0903.3387,
  title  = {Exactly Solved Model for an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer},
  author = {D. L. Kovrizhin and J. T. Chalker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3387},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, final version as published

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