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Anyons are exotic low-dimensional quasiparticles whose unconventional quantum statistics extends the binary particle division into fermions and bosons. The fractional quantum Hall regime provides a natural host, with first convincing anyon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 P. Glidic , I. Petkovic , C. Piquard , A. Aassime , A. Cavanna , Y. Jin , U. Gennser , C. Mora , D. Kovrizhin , A. Anthore , F. Pierre

Anyon colliders -- quantum Hall devices where dilute quasiparticle beams collide at a quantum point contact -- provide an interferometer-free probe of anyonic exchange phases through current cross correlations. Within a non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Bernd Rosenow , Bertrand I. Halperin

Existing quantum Hall interferometers measure twice the braiding phase, $e^{i2\theta}$, of Abelian anyons, i.e. the phase accrued when one quasi-particle encircles another clockwise. We propose a modified Fabry-P\'{e}rot or Mach-Zehnder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Steven A. Kivelson , Chaitanya Murthy

Anyons are low-dimensional quasiparticles that obey fractional statistics, hence interpolating between bosons and fermions. In two dimensions, they exist as elementary excitations of fractional quantum Hall states and they are believed to…

Anyons are usually characterized by their topological data and their fractional quantum numbers under global symmetries. In lattice systems such as fractional Chern insulators (FCI), they are also mobile quasiparticles. Their motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Taige Wang , T. Senthil

A basic diagnostic of entanglement in mixed quantum states is known as the partial transpose and the corresponding entanglement measure is called the logarithmic negativity. Despite the great success of logarithmic negativity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Hassan Shapourian , Roger S. K. Mong , Shinsei Ryu

Even-denominator quantum Hall states can host several types of anyons with distinct exchange statistics. Depending on the anyon type, exchanging two quasiparticles can impart a phase to the many-body wave function or even transform it into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Jehyun Kim , Amit Shaer , Ravi Kumar , Alexey Ilin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ady Stern , David F. Mross , Yuval Ronen

Coherent control and braiding of anyons remain central challenges in realizing topologically protected quantum operations. We propose a Ramsey interferometry protocol to directly access the geometric phases associated with anyons in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Felix A. Palm , Nader Mostaan , Nathan Goldman , Fabian Grusdt

Quasi-particles are elementary excitations of condensed matter quantum phases. Demonstrating that they keep quantum coherence while propagating is a fundamental issue for their manipulation for quantum information tasks. Here, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 I. Taktak , M. Kapfer , J. Nath , P. Roulleau , M. Acciai , J. Splettstoesser , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , D. C. Glattli

Two anyons encircling each other acquire a quantized braiding phase that is independent of their spatial separation. We show that detecting this phase in a fractional quantum Hall interference experiment results in a quantum Zeno effect: a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 David F. Mross

Entanglement of mixed quantum states can be quantified using the partial transpose and its corresponding entanglement measure, the logarithmic negativity. Recently, the notion of partial transpose has been extended to systems of anyons,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-22 Nico Kirchner , Wonjune Choi , Frank Pollmann

Utilizing an electronic Fabry-Perot interferometer in which Coulomb charging effects are suppressed, we report experimental observation of anyonic braiding statistics for the $\nu=1/3$ fractional quantum Hall state. Strong Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 James Nakamura , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

We consider the tunneling current through a double point-contact Fabry-Perot interferometer such as used in recent experimental studies of the fractional quantum Hall plateau at filling fraction nu=5/2. We compare the predictions of several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-05 Waheb Bishara , Parsa Bonderson , Chetan Nayak , Kirill Shtengel , J. K. Slingerland

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

The fractional quantum Hall states have long been predicted to be a testing ground of fractional (anyonic) exchange statistics. These topological states harbor quasiparticles with fractional charges of both abelian and non-abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Hemanta Kumar Kundu , Sourav Biswas , Nissim Ofek , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum

We develop a density functional treatment of non-interacting abelian anyons, which is capable, in principle, of dealing with a system of a large number of anyons in an external potential. Comparison with exact results for few particles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Yayun Hu , G. Murthy , S. Rao , J. K. Jain

We investigate the proposed experimental setup for measuring the topological charge in a an Ising anyon system by means of Fabry-P\'erot interferometry with a chiral edge state. We show that such an interferometer has the unintended but not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 David J Clarke , Kirill Shtengel

Demonstrating the non-Abelian Ising anyon statistics of Majorana zero modes in a physical platform still represents a major open challenge in physics. We here show that the linear low-frequency charge conductance of a Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-07 Andrea Nava , Reinhold Egger , Fabian Hassler , Domenico Giuliano

Linear response theory serves as a fundamental tool in the study of quantum transport, extensively employed to elucidate fundamental mechanisms related to the nature of the particles involved and the underlying symmetries. This framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Gu Zhang , Igor Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

Unconventional quantum states defying the ubiquitous Fermi-liquid paradigm can emerge in the presence of strong electronic correlations. Among these, non-Abelian anyons - such as Majorana zero modes and Fibonacci anyons - are of particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 C. Piquard , A. Veillon , Y. Sato , F. Zanichelli , A. Aassime , A. Cavanna , U. Gennser , A. K. Mitchell , A. Anthore , F. Pierre