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Robust protocols to reveal anyonic time-exchange phase

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-03-12 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider hierarchical quantum Hall edge states with NN modes and a spatially local quantum point contact (QPC). In general, the field of an injected anyon does not directly acquire the universal statistical phase θ\theta. Short-range inter-edge interactions split the universal anyon charge and phase into NN fractionalized charges associated with nonuniversal phases πδm\pi\delta_m. In contrast, their sum δ=m=1Nδm\delta=\sum_{m=1}^N\delta_m, which defines the local scaling dimension at the QPC, remains protected and is tied to the statistical angle through πδ=θ\pi\delta=\theta. If the injected anyon is of the same species as the one dominating backscattering at the QPC, time-domain braiding with phase θ\theta is recovered either in the absence of inter-edge interactions with equal mode velocities, or by performing a spatially local anyon injection at the QPC. We then exploit a more robust \emph{local} anyonic time-exchange (ATE) link between anyons and quasiholes at the QPC, which is also a necessary ingredient for realizing such braiding. This allows us to propose minimal single-QPC protocols that do not rely on diluted anyon sources and that disentangle the role of θ\theta as a genuine statistical phase from that as a scaling dimension. From the ATE link we derive two novel nonequilibrium fluctuation--dissipation relations (FDRs) that isolate θ\theta. They relate the DC backscattering noise either to an integral over the DC current or to the phase shift of the AC current with respect to an applied AC voltage (i.e., the phase of the admittance), accessible down to low frequencies. For thermalized edges, we show that in the quantum regime this admittance phase directly yields θ\theta whenever δ>1/2\delta>1/2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.10525,
  title  = {Robust protocols to reveal anyonic time-exchange phase},
  author = {Ines Safi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.10525},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures. Substancial changes. A whole section devoted to the braiding phase in the time domain, and its splitting in accordance with charge fractionalisation. A second method to determine the braiding phase based on DC current and noise

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