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Non-magnetic Fractional Conductance in High Mobility InAs Quantum Point Contacts

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-03-12 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this letter, we report the magneto-electronic properties of high mobility InAs quantum point contacts grown on InP substrates. The 1D conductance reaches a maximum value of 17 plateaus, quantized in units of 2e^2/h, where e is the fundamental unit of charge and h is Planck's constant. The in-plane effective g-factor was estimated to be -10.9 +/- 1.5 for subband N = 1 and -10.8 +/- 1.6 for subband N = 2. Furthermore, a study of the non-magnetic fractional conductance states at 0.2 (e^2/h) and 0.1(e2/h is provided. While their origin remains under discussion, evidence suggests that they arise from strong electron-electron interactions and momentum-conserving backscattering between electrons in two distinct channels within the 1D region. This phenomenon may also be interpreted as an entanglement between the two channel directions facilitated by momentum-conserving backscattering.

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@article{arxiv.2503.08476,
  title  = {Non-magnetic Fractional Conductance in High Mobility InAs Quantum Point Contacts},
  author = {I. Villar Rodriguez and Y. Gul and C. P. Dempsey and J. T. Dong and S. N. Holmes and C. J. Palmstrom and M. Pepper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08476},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 8 figures