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We demonstrate that the differential magnetic susceptibility of a fractional quantum Hall disk, representing a Coulomb island in a Fabry--Perot interferometer, is exactly proportional to the island's conductance and its paramagnetic peaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Lachezar S. Georgiev

Electrons in closed systems can exhibit Coulomb blockade (CB) oscillations due to charge quantization. Here, we report CB oscillations in aluminum superconducting islands on InAs nanowires in the open regime. The Al island is connected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Huading Song , Zhaoyu Wang , Dong Pan , Jiaye Xu , Yuqing Wang , Zhan Cao , Dong E. Liu , Ke He , Runan Shang , Jianhua Zhao , Hao Zhang

We investigate the transport properties of quantum dots placed in strong magnetic field using a quantum-mechanical ' approach based on the 2D tight-binding Hamiltonian with direct Coulomb interaction and the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker (LB)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Moldoveanu , A. Aldea , A. Manolescu , M. Nita

We report measurements of resistance oscillations in micron-scale antidots in both the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes. In the integer regime, we conclude that oscillations are of the Coulomb type from the scaling of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 A. Kou , C. M. Marcus , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We consider electron transport through a mobile island (i.e., a nanomechanical oscillator) which can accommodate one or two excess electrons and show that, in contrast to immobile islands, the Coulomb blockade peaks, associated with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-14 J. R. Johansson , L. G. Mourokh , A. Yu. Smirnov , Franco Nori

Here, we report on our results where self-consistent calculations are performed to investigate the interference conditions, numerically. We employ the successful 4$^{th}$ order grid technique to obtain the actual electrostatic quantities of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 E. Cicek , A. Siddiki

We consider the effect of Coulomb interactions in the propagation of electrons, prepared in arbitrary spin states, on chiral edge channels in the integer quantum Hall regime. Electrons are injected and detected at the same energy at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-08 Davide Venturelli , Denis Feinberg

A Fabry-Perot-type interferometer is experimentally realized for electrons in a semiconductor device. A special experimental geometry creates interference conditions for co-propagating electrons in quantum Hall edge states, which results in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. V. Deviatov , A. Lorke

We use a method of matched asymptotics to determine the energy gap of two counter-propagating, strongly interacting, quantum Hall edge states. The microscopic edge state dispersion and Coulomb interactions are used to precisely constrain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus Kollar , Subir Sachdev

We combine the ideas of intensity interferometry, polarization optics and Bell's measurement into an experimental proposal which is hosted in a $\nu\,$=$\,2$ quantum Hall (QH) edge state. Our interferometer comprises of a single gate, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Krishanu Roychowdhury , Disha Wadhawan , Poonam Mehta , Biswajit Karmakar , Sourin Das

We present a thorough analysis of the electron density distribution (shape) of two electrons, confined in the three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential, as a function of the perpendicular magnetic field.Explicit algebraic expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 N. S. Simonovic , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We investigate the electron localization in double concentric quantum rings (DCQRs) when a perpendicular magnetic field is applied. In weakly coupled DCQRs, the situation can occur when the single electron energy levels associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 I. Filikhin , S. G. Matinyan , B. Vlahovic

Quantum Hall edge channels can be combined with metallic regions to fractionalize electrons and form correlated impurity models. We study a minimal device, that has been experimentally achieved quite recently, with two floating islands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Deepak B. Karki , Edouard Boulat , Christophe Mora

Heat transport has large potentialities to unveil new physics in mesoscopic systems. A striking illustration is the integer quantum Hall regime, where the robustness of Hall currents limits information accessible from charge transport.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 C. Altimiras , H. le Sueur , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly , F. Pierre

We study electronic transport through metallic multi-island Coulomb-blockade systems. Based on a diagrammatic real-time approach, we develop a computer algorithm that generates and calculates all transport contributions up to second order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Björn Kubala , Göran Johansson , Jürgen König

This article is concerned with statistics of addition spectra for systems of identical charged particles. A classical model is suggested in order to study fluctuations of Coulomb blockade peak spacings in large two-dimensional semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yshai Avishai , Daniel Berend , Richard Berkovits

Pairing of electrons is ubiquitous in electronic systems featuring attractive inter-electron interactions, as exemplified in superconductors. Counter-intuitively, it can also be mediated in certain circumstances by the repulsive Coulomb…

Quantum oscillations in magnetization or resistivity are a defining feature of metals subject to an external magnetic field. The phenomenon is generally not expected in insulators without a Fermi surface. The observations of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Phuong X. Nguyen , Raghav Chaturvedi , Bo Zou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Allan H. MacDonald , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Motivated by recent experiments on the conductance fluctuations in mesoscopic integr quantum Hall systems, we consider a model in which the Coulomb interactions are incorporated into the picture of edge-state transport through a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -M. Ho

An importent question regarding the dissipation-less current carried by the edge states in a quantum Hall system is understanding the results of the electrodynamical interaction among the mobile electrons in the quantum mechanical limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Karmakar , G. H. Dohler , B. M. Arora