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We consider a class of models of non-equilibrium electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built on integer quantum Hall edges states. The models are characterized by the electron-electron interaction being restricted to the inner part of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Stéphane Ngo Dinh , Dmitry A. Bagrets , Alexander D. Mirlin

We review the construction of a low-energy effective field theory and its state space for "abelian" quantum Hall fluids. The scaling limit of the incompressible fluid is described by a Chern-Simons theory in 2+1 dimensions on a manifold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Samuel Bieri , Juerg Froehlich

We study electron transport through a multichannel fractional quantum Hall edge in the presence of both interchannel interaction and random tunneling between channels, with emphasis on the role of contacts. The prime example in our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 C. Spånslätt , Yuval Gefen , I. V. Gornyi , D. G. Polyakov

We report experiments on electron interferometer devices in the quantum Hall regime, where edge channels circle a 2D electron island. The main confinement is produced by etch trenches, into which front gate metal is deposited. We find a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-10 Wei Zhou , F. E. Camino , V. J. Goldman

We have experimentally identified fractional quasiparticle creation in a tunneling process through a local fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state. The local FQH state is prepared in a low-density region near a quantum point contact (QPC) in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Masayuki Hashisaka , Tomoaki Ota , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

We study electron transport at the edge of a generic disordered two-dimensional topological insulator, where some channels are topologically protected from backscattering. Assuming the total number of channels is large, we consider the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 E. Khalaf , M. A. Skvortsov , P. M. Ostrovsky

We investigate the temperature and voltage dependence of the quantum interference in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer using edge channels in the integer quantum-Hall-regime. The amplitude of the interference fringes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. V. Litvin , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

We study Coulomb interactions in the finite bias response of Mach-Zehnder interferometers, which exploit copropagating edge states in the integer quantum Hall effect. Here, interactions are particularly important since the coherent coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Luca Chirolli , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti

The quasiexcitations of quantum Hall systems at the filling factor $\nu = p/(2pq \pm 1)$ are studied in terms of chargeon and fluxon introduced previously as constituents of an electron at $\nu = 1/2$. At temperatures $T < T_{\rm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ikuo Ichinose , Tetsuo Matsui

Tunneling of quasiparticles between two nearly-aligned graphene sheets produces resonant current-voltage characteristics because of the quasi-exact conservation of in-plane momentum. We claim that, in this regime, vertical transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Karina A. Guerrero-Becerra , Andrea Tomadin , Marco Polini

Among the predicted properties of fractional quantum Hall states are fractionally charged quasiparticles and conducting edge-states described as chiral Luttinger liquids. In a system with a narrow constriction, tunneling of quasi-particles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Rosenow , B. I. Halperin

We report on magnetoconductance measurements through a weakly coupled quantum dot, containing roughly 900 electrons, in a wide magnetic field range from 0 T to 12 T. We find modulations of the conductance resonances in the quantum Hall…

Confinement of small-gapped fractional quantum Hall states facilitates quasiparticle manipulation and is an important step towards quasiparticle interference measurements. Demonstrated here is conduction through top gate defined, narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. L. Willett , M. J. Manfra , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Electron tunneling into a system with strong interactions is known to exhibit an anomaly, in which the tunneling conductance vanishes continuously at low energy due to many-body interactions. Recent measurements have probed this anomaly in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-17 Debanjan Chowdhury , Brian Skinner , Patrick A. Lee

Quantum interferometers are powerful tools for probing the wave-nature and exchange statistics of indistinguishable particles. Of particular interest are interferometers formed by the chiral, one-dimensional (1D) edge channels of the…

Exotic electronic states are realized in novel quantum materials. This field is revolutionized by the topological classification of materials. Such compounds necessarily host unique states on their boundaries. Scanning tunneling microscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nurit Avraham , Jonathan Reiner , Abhay Kumar-Nayak , Noam Morali , Rajib Batabyal , Binghai Yan , Haim Beidenkopf

We study various geometrical aspects of the propagation of particles obeying fractional statistics in the physical setting of the quantum Hall system. We find a discrete set of zeros for the two-particle kernel in the lowest Landau level;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diptiman Sen , Michael Stone , Smitha Vishveshwara

Electrons in two dimensions and strong magnetic fields effectively lose their kinetic energy and display exotic behavior dominated by Coulomb forces. When the ratio of electrons to magnetic flux quanta in the system is near 5/2, the unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vivek Venkatachalam , Amir Yacoby , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West

Electronic interferometers have been identified as possible candidates for building electronic flying qubits. Such a regime requires ultrafast voltage pulses whose duration is shorter than the time of flight through the device.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Prasoon Kumar , Thomas Kloss , Xavier Waintal

We present a calculation of noise in the tunneling current through junctions between two two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) in inequivalent Laughlin fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, as a function of voltage and temperature. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nancy P. Sandler , Claudio de C. Chamon , Eduardo Fradkin