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Electronic interferometers using the chiral, one-dimensional (1D) edge channels of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) can demonstrate a wealth of fundamental phenomena. The recent observation of phase jumps in a Fabry-P\'erot (FP) interferometer…

The analog of two seminal quantum optics experiments are considered in a condensed matter setting with single electron sources injecting electronic wave packets on edge states coupled through a quantum point contact. When only one electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 D. Ferraro , T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , T. Martin

Scalable interferometers lie at the heart of photonic quantum technologies, but their expansion has been fundamentally limited by optical losses that grow with circuit depth. Here, we introduce and experimentally demonstrate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Abhinav Verma , Jacob Hastrup , Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen , Ulrik L. Andersen

Today, the realization of large optical interferometer schemes is necessary for many sophisticated information processing algorithms. In this work, we propose a modular interferometer architecture possible when the number of input channels…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-11 M. Yu. Saygin

The modelling of electrical connections of single, or several, multiterminal quantum Hall effect (QHE) devices is relevant for electrical metrology: it is known, in fact, that certain particular connections allow i) the realization of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 Massimo Ortolano , Luca Callegaro

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

A system of electrons in two dimensions and strong magnetic fields can be tuned to create a gapped 2D system with one dimensional channels along the edge. Interactions among these edge modes can lead to independent transport of charge and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vivek Venkatachalam , Sean Hart , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West , Amir Yacoby

We report the fabrication and study of Hall bar MOSFET devices in which an overlapping-gate architecture allows four-terminal measurements of low-density 2D electron systems, while maintaining a high density at the ohmic contacts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 Laurens H. Willems van Beveren , Kuan Y. Tan , Nai-Shyan Lai , Andrew S. Dzurak , Alex R. Hamilton

A theory of transport in the quantum Hall regime is developed for separately contacted double-layer electron systems. Inter-layer tunneling provides a channel for equilibration of the distribution functions in the two layers and influences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 D. Yoshioka , A. H. MacDonald

The transport in complex multiple quantum well heterostructures is theoretically described. The model is focused on quantum cascade detectors, which represent an exciting challenge due to the complexity of the structure containing 7 or 8…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Koeniguer , G. Dubois , A. Gomez , V. Berger

The nature of a metal-insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al [1], is examined. We attribute this phenomenon to a splitting of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

The unusual properties of two-dimensional electron systems that give rise to the quantum Hall effect have prompted the development of new microscopic models for electrical conduction. The bulk properties of the quantum Hall effect have also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 S. H. Tessmer , P. I. Glicofridis , R. C. Ashoori , L. S. Levitov , M. R. Melloch

Electron pairing is a rare phenomenon appearing only in a few unique physical systems; e.g., superconductors and Kondo-correlated quantum dots. Here, we report on an unexpected, but robust, electron "pairing" in the integer quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hyungkook Choi , Itamar Sivan , Amir Rosenblatt , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

We study transport through an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer recently devised at the Weizmann Institute. We show that this device can be used to probe statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall regime. We calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. T. Law , D. E. Feldman , Yuval Gefen

We develop a theoretical description of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer built from integer quantum Hall edge states, with an emphasis on how electron-electron interactions produce decoherence. We calculate the visibility of interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 J. T. Chalker , Yuval Gefen , M. Y. Veillette

I study the structure of the two-dimensional electron gas edge in the quantum Hall regime using the composite fermion approach. The electron density distribution and the composite fermion energy spectrum are obtained numerically in Hartree…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Dmitri B. Chklovskii

Recent experiments involving semiconducting quantum dots embedded in Aharonov-Bohm interferometry setups suggest that information concerning the phase of electron wavefunctions can be obtained from transport measurements. Here we review the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuval Gefen

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits by exploiting collective quantum superpositions of physical systems used for sensing, with the prominent example of non-classical multiphoton states improving interferometric techniques.…

The quantum Hall effect is a remarkable manifestation of quantized transport in a two-dimensional electron gas. Given its technological relevance, it is important to understand its development in realistic nanoscale devices. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 I. J. Vera-Marun , P. J. Zomer , A. Veligura , M. H. D. Guimarães , L. Visser , N. Tombros , H. J. van Elferen , U. Zeitler , B. J. van Wees

A quantum Hall system which is divided into two laterally coupled subsystems by means of a tunneling barrier exhibits a complex Landau level dispersion. Magnetotunneling spectroscopy is employed to investigate the small energy gaps which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Matthias Habl , Werner Wegscheider