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Coherent optical driving in quantum solids is emerging as a new research frontier, with many demonstrations of exotic non-equilibrium quantum phases. These are based on engineered band structures, and on stimulated nonlinear interactions…

We investigate the quantum transport dynamics of electrons in a multi-path Aharonov-Bohm interferometer comprising several parallel graphene nanoribbons. At low magnetic field strengths, the conductance displays a complex oscillatory…

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We report on the transition from magnetic edge to electric edge transport in a split magnetic gate device which applies a notch magnetic field to a two-dimensional electron gas. The gate bias allows tuning the overlap of magnetic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Alain Nogaret , Puja Mondal , Ankip Kumar , Sankalpa Ghosh , Harvey Beere , David Ritchi

The charge and exchange statistics of an elementary excitation manifest in quantum coherent oscillations that can be explored in interferometry measurements. Quantum Hall interferometers are primary tools to uncover unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Hailong Fu , Ke Huang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Morteza Kayyalha , Jun Zhu

Although the conductance of a closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, with a quantum dot on one branch, obeys the Onsager symmetry under magnetic field reversal, it needs not be a periodic function of this field: the conductance maxima move…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Tomohiro Otsuka , Shingo Katsumoto , Hisashi Aikawa , Kensuke Kobayashi

A quantum Hall edge state provides a rich foundation to study electrons in 1-dimension (1d) but is limited to chiral propagation along a single direction. Here, we demonstrate a versatile platform to realize new 1d systems made by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , J. Y. Luo , A. F. Young , B. Hunt , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We study dephasing in electron transport through a large quantum dot (a Fabry-Perot interferometer) in the fractional quantum Hall regime with filling factor $2/3$. In the regime of sequential tunneling, dephasing occurs due to electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Jinhong Park , Yuval Gefen , H. -S. Sim

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

Two distinct types of magnetoresistance oscillations are observed in two electronic Fabry-Perot interferometers of different sizes in the integer quantum Hall regime. Measuring these oscillations as a function of magnetic field and gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 Yiming Zhang , D. T. McClure , E. M. Levenson-Falk , C. M. Marcus , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We discuss the prospects of detecting with high precision the force fields related to noninertiality in superconducting circuits. Special emphasis is laid on the perfectly conducting and perfect diamagnetism analogues of the Tolman-Stewart…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe R. Fischer , Christoph Haeussler , Joerg Oppenlaender , Nils Schopohl

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 study the electronic transport across an electrostatically-gated lateral junction in a HgTe quantum well, a canonical 2D topological insulator, with and without applied magnetic field. We control carrier density inside and outside a…

We investigate quantum transport in an off-diagonal Aubry--Andr\'e--Harper chain. The periodic hopping modulation generates effective internal boundaries that strongly influence the transmission characteristics. We show that edge, in-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Moumita Patra

We experimentally study equilibration between edge states, co-propagating at the edge of the fractional quantum Hall liquid, at high initial imbalances. We find an anomalous increase of the conductance between the fractional edge states at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Deviatov , A. A. Kapustin , V. T. Dolgopolov , A. Lorke , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

We consider theoretically an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed from quantum Hall edge channels and quantum point contacts, fed with single electrons from a dynamic quantum dot source. By considering the energy dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Clarissa J. Barratt , Sungguen Ryu , Lewis A. Clark , H. -S. Sim , Masaya Kataoka , Clive Emary

Transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external magnetic field is analyzed in the presence of a \textit{longitudinal barrier.} We show that \textit{quantum interference of the edge states} bound by the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Kadigrobov , M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

The presence of strong disorder in graphene nanoribbons yields low-mobility diffusive transport at high charge densities, whereas a transport gap occurs at low densities. Here, we investigate the longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Fabian Duerr , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Charles Gould , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We report on transport measurements of dual-gated, single-layer graphene devices in the quantum Hall regime, allowing for independent control of the filling factors in adjoining regions. Progress in device quality allows us to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 F. Amet , J. R. Wiliams , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We study the low energy edge states of bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. Several possible simple boundaries geometries related to zigzag edges are considered. Tight-binding calculations reveal three types of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Victoria Mazo , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig

We report experiments on the interference through spin states of electrons in a quantum dot (QD) embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. We have picked up a spin-pair state, for which the environmental conditions are ideally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hisashi Aikawa , Kensuke Kobayashi , Akira Sano , Shingo Katsumoto , Yasuhiro Iye