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Fractional quantum Hall-superconductor heterostructures may provide a platform towards non-abelian topological modes beyond Majoranas. However their quantitative theoretical study remains extremely challenging. We propose and implement a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-08 C. Repellin , A. M. Cook , T. Neupert , N. Regnault

We study the quantum phases driven by interaction in a semimetal with a quadratic band touching at the Fermi level. By combining the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), analytical power expanded Gibbs potential method, and the weak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Shouvik Sur , Shou-Shu Gong , Kun Yang , Oskar Vafek

We show that quasiparticle interference (QPI) due to omnipresent weak impurities and probed by Fourier transform scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy acts as a direct experimental probe of bulk odd-frequency superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Quantum point contacts (QPC) are a key instrument in investigating the physics of edge excitations in the quantum Hall effect. However, at not-so-high bias voltage values, the predictions of the conventional point QPC model often deviate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Prasoon Kumar , Kyrylo Snizhko

Topological phases characterized by non-Abelian charges are beyond the scope of the paradigmatic tenfold way and have gained increasing attention recently. Here we investigate topological insulators with multiple tangled gaps in Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Tianyu Li , Haiping Hu

We explain recent experimental observations on effective charge of edge states tunneling through a quantum point contact in the weak backscattering regime. We focus on the behavior of the excess noise and on the effective tunneling charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 Dario Ferraro , Alessandro Braggio , Nicodemo Magnoli , Maura Sassetti

We study quasiparticle tunneling in Josephson tunnel junctions embedded in an electromagnetic environment. We identify tunneling processes that transfer electrical charge and couple to the environment in a way similar to that of normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 Mohammad H. Ansari , Frank K. Wilhelm , Urbasi Sinha , Aninda Sinha

Two dimensional electron systems exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effects are characterized by a quantized Hall conductance and a dissipationless bulk. The transport in these systems occurs only at the edges where gapless excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Hoang K. Nguyen , Ganpathy Murthy

We develop the general quantum measurement theory of non-Abelian anyons through interference experiments. The paper starts with a terse introduction to the theory of anyon models, focusing on the basic formalism necessary to apply standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Parsa Bonderson , Kirill Shtengel , J. K. Slingerland

Commencing with the composite fermion description of the $\nu=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall effect, we study the dynamics of the edge neutral Majorana fermions. We confirm that these neutral modes are chiral and show that a conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yue Yu

We study point-contact tunneling in the integer quantum Hall state of bosons. This symmetry-protected topological state has electrical Hall conductivity equal to $2 e^2/h$ and vanishing thermal Hall conductivity. In contrast to the integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-24 Michael Mulligan , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We theoretically investigate transport affected by cavity-mediated electron hopping in multi-terminal quantum Hall bars, quantum point contacts, and Aharonov-Bohm interferometers. Beyond determining conductances and resistances, we analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Dalin Boriçi , Geva Arwas , Cristiano Ciuti

We study the quantum interference (QI) effects in three-terminal Andreev interferometers based on polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's) under non-equilibrium conditions. The Andreev interferometer consists of a PAH coupled to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Noel L. Plaszkó , Peter Rakyta , József Cserti , Andor Kormányos , Colin J. Lambert

We study a quantum point contact in the fractional quantum Hall regime at Landau level filling factors 1/3 and 5/2. By using exact diagonalizations in the cylinder geometry we identify the edge modes in the presence of a parabolic confining…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Paul Soulé , Thierry Jolicoeur , Philippe Lecheminant

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

We combine the ideas of intensity interferometry, polarization optics and Bell's measurement into an experimental proposal which is hosted in a $\nu\,$=$\,2$ quantum Hall (QH) edge state. Our interferometer comprises of a single gate, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Krishanu Roychowdhury , Disha Wadhawan , Poonam Mehta , Biswajit Karmakar , Sourin Das

We study effects of electron correlation on the transport through a small interacting system connected to reservoirs using an effective Hamiltonian which describes the free quasi-particles of a Fermi liquid. The effective Hamiltonian is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Akira Oguri

We consider a two-particle interferometer, where voltage sources applied to ohmic contacts inject electronic excitations into a pair of copropagating edge channels. We analyze the impact of channel mixing due to inter-edge tunneling on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Matteo Acciai , Preden Roulleau , D. Christian Glattli , Janine Splettstoesser

Pioneering thermal transport measurements on two-dimensional electron gases in high magnetic fields have demonstrated that the quantized Hall state at filling factor $\nu=5/2$ has a thermal Hall conductance $\kappa$ quantized in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Tevž Lotrič , Taige Wang , Michael P. Zaletel , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We present a list of possible effective theories which may describe a QHE edge at filling fraction $\nu =5/2$. We show that there exist several abelian and non-abelian effective theories (apart from those discussed in the literature)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Alexey Boyarsky , Vadim Cheianov , Jürg Fröhlich