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We measure the magneto-conductance through a micron-sized quantum dot hosting about 500 electrons in the quantum Hall regime. In the Coulomb blockade, when the island is weakly coupled to source and drain contacts, edge reconstruction at…

We use a quasi-Corbino sample geometry with independent contacts to different edge states in the quantum Hall effect regime to investigate the edge energy spectrum of a bilayer electron system at total filling factor $\nu=2$. By analyzing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. Deviatov , A. Wurtz , A. Lorke , M. Yu. Melnikov , V. T. Dolgopolov , A. Wixforth , K. L. Campman , A. C. Gossard

We study quasiparticle tunneling between the edges of a non-Abelian topological state. The simplest examples are a p+ip superconductor and the Moore-Read Pfaffian non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall state; the latter state may have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

Quantum Hall edge states offer avenues for quasiparticle interferometry, provided that the ratio between phase coherence length and quantum Hall interferometer (QHI) size is large enough. Maximizing this ratio by shrinking the QHI area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 N. Moreau , B. Brun , S. Somanchi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer , B. Hackens

We study the resonant tunneling of quasiparticles through an impurity between the edges of a Fractional Quantum Hall sample. We show that the one-particle momentum distribution of fractionally charged edge quasiparticles has a quasi-Fermi…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 V. L. Pokrovsky , L. P. Pryadko

Anyons are particles with fractional exchange statistics that emerge as elementary excitations of fractional quantum Hall phases. Experimentally, their exchange statistics can be measured in the edge-state Fabry-P\'erot interferometer. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Noah L. Samuelson , Liam A. Cohen , Will Wang , Simon Blanch , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Michael P. Zaletel , Andrea F. Young

We study the scaling behavior in the tunneling amplitude when quasiparticles tunnel along a straight path between the two edges of a fractional quantum Hall annulus. Such scaling behavior originates from the propagation and tunneling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-13 Zi-Xiang Hu , Ki Hoon Lee , E. H. Rezayi , Xin Wan , Kun Yang

We propose a device, consisting of a Hall bar with two weak barriers, that can be used to study quantum interference effects in a strongly correlated system. We show how the device provides a way of measuring the fractional charge and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. de C. Chamon , D. E. Freed , S. A. Kivelson , S. L. Sondhi , X. G. Wen

The quantum Hall (QH) effect represents a unique playground where quantum coherence of electrons can be exploited for various applications, from metrology to quantum computation. In the fractional regime it also hosts anyons, emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Matteo Carrega , Luca Chirolli , Stefan Heun , Lucia Sorba

Experimental observations of flux periodicity $\phi_{0}/2$, where $\phi_0=h/e$, for interference of the outermost edge mode in the integer quantum Hall regime have been attributed to an exotic electron pairing mechanism. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Shuang Liang , James Nakamura , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

We study electric transport along an integer quantum Hall edge where the proximity effect is induced due to a coupling to a superconductor. Such an edge exhibits two Majorana-Weyl fermions with different group velocities set by the induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Oleksandr Gamayun , Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Vadim V. Cheianov

Exchange statistics are a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, dictating the symmetry of identical particle wavefunctions and thereby enabling emergent phenomena of many-body quantum states. The exchange-induced unitary…

Interference of fractionally charged quasi-particles is expected to lead to Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with periods larger than the flux quantum. However, according to the Byers-Yang theorem, observables of an electronic system are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Juerg Froehlich , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We study proximity coupling between a superconductor and counter-propagating gapless modes arising on the edges of Abelian fractional quantum Hall liquids with filling fraction $\nu=1/m$ (with $m$ an odd integer). This setup can be utilized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Barak A. Katzir , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Netanel H. Lindner

Observation of non-Abelian statistics for the e/4 quasiparticles in the \nu=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state remains an outstanding experimental problem. The non-Abelian statistics are linked to the presence of additional low energy states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Gilad Ben-Shach , Chris R. Laumann , Izhar Neder , Amir Yacoby , Bertrand I. Halperin

We consider a fractional quantum Hall bilayer system with an interface between quantum Hall states of filling fractions $(\nu_{\text{top}},\nu_{\text{bottom}})=(1,1)$ and $(1/3,2)$, motivated by a recent approach to engineering artificial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Moshe Goldstein , Yuval Gefen

Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometry has emerged as a tool to probe anyon statistics in the quantum Hall effect. The interference phase is interpreted as a combination of a quantized statistical phase and an Aharonov-Bohm phase, proportional to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 D. E. Feldman , Bertrand I. Halperin

We propose an experiment to probe the unconventional quantum statistics of quasi-particles in fractional quantum Hall states by measurement of current noise. The geometry we consider is that of a Hall bar where two quantum point contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eytan Grosfeld , Steven H. Simon , Ady Stern

Theory predicts that quasiparticle tunneling between the counter-propagating edges in a fractional quantum Hall state can be used to measure the effective quasiparticle charge e* and dimensionless interaction parameter g, and thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-18 Iuliana P. Radu , J. B. Miller , C. M. Marcus , M. A. Kastner , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

An effective Chern-Simons theory for the Abelian quantum Hall states with edges is proposed to study the edge and bulk properties in a unified fashion. We impose a condition that the currents do not flow outside the sample. With this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Naoto Nagaosa , Mahito Kohmoto