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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

We consider an implementation of the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb experiment in a DC-biased electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a leakage port on one of its arms playing the role of a "lousy bom". Many-body correlations tend to screen out…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

Multiparticle quantum interference is critical for our understanding and exploitation of quantum information, and for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics. A remarkable example of multi-partite correlations is exhibited by the…

Fractionally charged quasiparticles in the quantum Hall state with filling factor $\nu=5/2$ are expected to obey non-Abelian statistics. We demonstrate that their statistics can be probed by transport measurements in an electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. E. Feldman , Alexei Kitaev

Quasi-particles in fractional quantum Hall states are collective excitations that carry fractional charge and anyonic statistics. While the fractional charge affects semi-classical characteristics such as shot noise and charging energies,…

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in a graphene quantum ring with a top gate covering one arm of the ring. As graphene is a gapless semiconductor this geometry allows to study not only the quantum interference of electrons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Smirnov , H. Schmidt , R. J. Haug

We investigate the conductance of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer coupled to a quantum dot and two Majorana bound states on the edge of the topological superconductor with finite length. When the tunnel couplings between the Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Akiko Ueda , Takehito Yokoyama

Two optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers were constructed in an environment with a temperature stabilization of better than 1 mK per day. One interferometer with a length of 12 m optical fiber in each arm with the main direction of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Victor de Haan

We compute the interference pattern of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer operating in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Our theoretical proposal is inspired by a remarkable experiment on edge states in the Integer Quantum Hall effect (IQHE).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibaut Jonckheere , Pierre Devillard , Adeline Crepieux , Thierry Martin

We present a microscopic picture of quantum transport in quantum antidots in the quantum Hall regime taking electron interactions into account. We discuss the edge state structure, energy level evolution, charge quantization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko , G. Kirczenow

We show that multiple point contacts on a barrier separating two laterally coupled quantum Hall fluids induce Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in the tunneling conductance. These quantum coherence effects provide new evidence for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eun-Ah Kim , Eduardo Fradkin

We experimentally observe the two-photon interference of multimode photon pairs produced by an optical parametric oscillator far below threshold via a michelson interferometer, which shows a multipeaked structure. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-27 Fu-Yuan Wang , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

We present up to 24-photon Bragg diffraction as a beam splitter in light-pulse atom interferometers to achieve the largest splitting in momentum space so far. Relative to the 2-photon processes used in the most sensitive present…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-05-15 Holger Mueller , Sheng-wey Chiow , Quan Long , Sven Herrmann , Steven Chu

We derive the asymptotic maximum-likelihood phase estimation uncertainty for any interferometric protocol where the positions of the probe particles are measured to infer the phase, but where correlations between the particles are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jan Chwedenczuk , Philipp Hyllus , Francesco Piazza , Augusto Smerzi

Multi-terminal Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings are ideal building blocks for quantum networks (QNs) thanks to their ability to map input states into controlled coherent superpositions of output states. We report on experiments performed on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 E. Strambini , V. Piazza , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , F. Beltram

The phenomenon of matter wave interference lies at the heart of quantum physics. It has been observed in various contexts in the limit of non-interacting particles as a single particle effect. Here we observe and control matter wave…

Due to their high energy, hot electrons in quantum Hall edge states can be considered as single particles that have the potential to be used for quantum optics-like experiments. Unlike photons, however, electrons typically undergo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Lewis A. Clark , Masaya Kataoka , Clive Emary

We study a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state in one input port and vacuum in the other. We explore a Bayesian phase estimation strategy to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve the standard quantum limit independently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pezze , A. Smerzi , G. Khoury , J. F. Hodelin , D. Bouwmeester

We discuss complementarity and uncertainty in a gedanken Which-Way (Welcher-Weg) experiment in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Although a Welcher-Weg measurement can be performed with only a negligible amount of momentum change in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Ludwin , Y. Ben-Aryeh , A. Mann

Atom interferometry with high visibility is of high demand for precision measurements. Here, a parallel multicomponent interferometer is achieved by preparing a spin-$2$ Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in a hybrid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-01 Pengju Tang , Peng Peng , Zhihan Li , Xuzong Chen , Xiaopeng Li , Xiaoji Zhou