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We study the problem of injecting single electrons into interacting one-dimensional quantum systems, a fundamental building block for electron quantum optics. It is well known that such injection leads to charge and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Matteo Acciai , Alessio Calzona , Giacomo Dolcetto , Thomas L. Schmidt , Maura Sassetti

Ballistic transport of hot electrons in a quantum Hall edge channel is attractive for studying electronic analog of quantum optics, where the edge potential profile is an important parameter that governs the charge velocity and scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Shunya Akiyama , Taichi Hirasawa , Yuya Sato , Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

Originated from the superposition principle in quantum mechanics, coherence has been extensively studied as a kind important resource in quantum information processing. We investigate the distinguishability of coherence-breaking channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Long-Mei Yang , Tao Li , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

Quantum energy teleportation (QET) is a proposed protocol related to the quantum vacuum. The edge channels in a quantum Hall system is well suited for the experimental verification of QET. For this purpose, we examine a charge density wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Masahiro Matsuura , Takaaki Mano , Takeshi Noda , Naokazu Shibata , Masahiro Hotta , Go Yusa

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 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

Observation of interference in the quantum Hall regime may be hampered by a small edge state velocity due to finite phase coherence time. Therefore designing two quantum point contact (QPCs) interferometers having a high edge state velocity…

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

Fractionalization is a phenomenon where an elementary excitation partitions into several pieces. This picture explains non-trivial transport through a junction of one-dimensional edge channels defined by topologically distinct quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Chaojing Lin , Masayuki Hashisaka , Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

In recent interference experiments with an electronic Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI), implemented in the integer quantum Hall effect regime, a flux periodicity of $h/2e$ was observed at bulk fillings $\nu_B>2.5$. The halved periodicity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 I. Sivan , R. Bhattacharyya , H. K. Choi , M. Heiblum , D. E. Feldman , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

We have studied a clean finite-length line junction between interacting counterpropagating single-branch fractional-quantum-Hall edge channels. Exact solutions for low-lying excitations and transport properties are obtained when the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Zuelicke , E. Shimshoni

In this article we show that if the electrons in a quantum Hall sample are subjected to a constant electric field in the plane of the material, comparable in magnitude to the background magnetic field on the system of electrons, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Rashmi Ray , Joan Soto

Quantum Hall edge channels offer an efficient and controllable platform to study quantum transport in one dimension. Such channels are a prospective tool for the efficient transfer of quantum information at the nanoscale, and play a vital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. Krähenmann , S. G. Fischer , M. Röösli , T. Ihn , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , K. Ensslin , Y. Gefen , Y. Meir

A quantum Hall line junction system consists of a one-dimensional Luttinger liquid (LL) and two chiral channels that allow density waves incident upon and reflected by the LL to be measured separately. We demonstrate that interactions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei-Cheng Lee , N. A. Sinitsyn , Emiliano Papa , A. H. MacDonald

We study the interplay of confining potential, electron-electron interaction, and Zeeman splitting at the edges of fractional quantum Hall liquids, using numerical diagonalization of finite-size systems. The filling factors studied include…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuhui Zhang , Zi-Xiang Hu , Kun Yang

Quantum Hall (QH) edge channels appear not only along the edge of the electron gas but also along an interface between two QH regions with different filling factors. However, the fundamental transport characteristics of such interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Chaojing Lin , Masayuki Hashisaka , Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

We present a current and charge conserving theory for the low frequency admittance of a two-dimensional electron gas connected to ideal metallic contacts and subject to a quantizing magnetic field. In the framework of the edge-channel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Christen , M. Buttiker

We theoretically investigate the evolution of the peak height of an energy resolved electronic wave-packets ballistically propagating along integer quantum Hall edge channels at filling factor $\nu=2$. This is ultimately related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 G. Rebora , D. Ferraro , R. H. Rodriguez , F. D. Parmentier , P. Roche , M. Sassetti

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

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