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We consider the currents flowing in a solid-state interferometer under the effect of both an Aharonov-Bohm phase and a bias potential. Expressions are obtained for these currents, allowing for electronic or electron-boson interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Entin-Wohlman , Y. Imry , A. Aharony

A theoretical non-pertubative treatment is developed to explain the dephasing of electrons in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer via interaction with a near-by partitioned electronic channel, which acts as a "which path" detector.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Neder

We theoretically investigated the dephasing in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing a lateral double quantum dot induced by coupling with a quantum dot charge sensor. We employed the interpolative 2nd-order perturbation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Kubo , Y. Tokura , S. Tarucha

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

A voltage bias applied to a conductor induces a change of the current noise with respect to the equilibrium noise known as excess noise. We analyze the excess noise of the electronic current flowing through a mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Fabrizio Dolcini , Hermann Grabert

We present a theoretical study of the influence of dephasing on shot noise in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. In contrast to phenomenological approaches, we employ a microscopic model where dephasing is induced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Florian Marquardt , C. Bruder

We study excess noise in a quantum conductor in the presence of constant voltage and alternating external field. Due to a two particle interference effect caused by Fermi correlations the noise is sensitive to the phase of the time…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , G. B. Lesovik

We study theoretically transitions of a double quantum-dot qubit caused by nonequilibrium charge fluctuations in a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) used as a detector. We show that these transitions are related to the fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-05 C. E. Young , A. A. Clerk

We study the Fano effect and the visibility of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations for a mesoscopic interferometer with an embedded quantum dot in the presence of a nearby second dot. When the electron-electron interaction between the two dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Moldoveanu , M. Tolea. B. Tanatar

We investigate the suppression of the visibility of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a two-electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer that leaves the single-electron current unchanged. In the case when the sources emit either spin-polarized or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ya. M. Blanter , Yuval Gefen

We have investigated the characteristics of the currents in a pump-driven fermionic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The system is implemented in a conductor in the quantum Hall regime, with the two interferometer arms enclosing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -W. V. Chung , M. Moskalets , P. Samuelsson

This work was motivated by the quest for observing interference of fractionally charged quasi particles. Here, we study the behavior of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) at the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) regime at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Itamar Gurman , Ron Sabo , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

We report the observation of an unpredicted behavior of interfering 2D electrons in the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) regime via a utilization of an electronic analog of the well-known Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The beauty of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Neder , M. Heiblum , Y. Levinson , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

We study the conductance and current noise of a superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) single channel Quantum Point Contact (QPC) as a function of the QPC bias voltage, using a scattering approach. We show that the Spin-Dependence of Interfacial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Audrey Cottet , Wolfgang Belzig

We study electron transport through a triple quantum dot in ring configuration at finite bias. In particular, we analyze the influence of a gate voltage that detunes one of the dots, such that one branch of the interferometer becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 Fernando Domínguez , Gloria Platero , Sigmund Kohler

We present an original statistical method to measure the visibility of interferences in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the presence of low frequency fluctuations. The visibility presents a single side lobe structure shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-17 Preden Roulleau , F. Portier , D. C. Glattli , P. Roche , A. Cavanna , G. Gaini , U. Gennser , D. Mailly

We propose a theoretical model for the low-frequency noise observed in a quantum point contact (QPC) electrostatically defined in the 2D electron gas at a GaAs-AlGaAs interface. In such contacts electron scattering by soft impurity- or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. P. Hessling , Yu. Galperin , M. Jonson , R. I. Shekhter , A. M. Zagoskin

We study nonequilibrium properties of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer built from integer quantum Hall edge states at filling fraction $\nu{=}1$. For a model in which electrons interact only when they are inside the interferometer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

We performed a transport measurement in a ballistic Aharonov-Bohm ring and a Fabry-Perot type interferometer. In both cases we found that the interference signal is reversed at a certain bias voltage and that the visibility decays…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-08 Y. Yamauchi , M. Hashisaka , S. Nakamura , K. Chida , S. Kasai , T. Ono , R. Leturcq , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard , K. Kobayashi

We present an experiment where we tune the decoherence in a quantum interferometer using one of the simplest object available in the physic of quantum conductors : an ohmic contact. For that purpose, we designed an electronic Mach-Zehnder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Roulleau , F. Portier , P. Roche , A. Cavanna , G. Faini , U. Gennser , D. Mailly