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We present an interferometric scheme producing orbital entanglement in a quantum Hall system upon electron-hole pair emission via tunneling. The proposed setup is an electronic version of the optical interferometer proposed by Cabello et…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-23 Diego Frustaglia , Adan Cabello

Hole-conjugate states of the fractional quantum Hall effect host counter-propagating edge channels which are thought to exchange charge and energy. These exchanges have been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental works; in…

The work is motivated by the puzzling results of the recent experiment [S. Tewari et al., Phys. Rev. B 93, 035420 (2016)], where a robust coherence recovery from a certain energy was detected for an electron injected into the quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Anna S. Goremykina , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

The spatial distribution of the incompressible edge states (IES) is obtained for a geometry which is topologically equivalent to an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, taking into account the electron-electron interactions within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Siddiki , A. E. Kavruk , T. Ozturk , U. Atav M. Sahin , T. Hakioglu

We study coherence and entanglement properties of the state space of a composite bi-fermion (two electrons pierced by $\lambda$ magnetic flux lines) at one Landau site of a bilayer quantum Hall system. In particular, interlayer imbalance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 M. Calixto , E. Pérez-Romero

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

A half-mirror that divides a spin-polarized electron into two parallel copropagating spin-resolved quantum Hall edge channels one half each is presented in this study. The partition process was coherent, as confirmed by observing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Takase Shimizu , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akira Endo , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

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

The quantum Hall bilayer (QHB) at filling factor $ \nu = 1 $ represents a competition between Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) at small distances between layers and fermionic condensation, whose influence grows with distance and results in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-20 Sonja Predin , Milica V. Milovanović

Semi-transparent mirrors are standard elements in light optics for splitting light beams or creating two versions of the same image. Such mirrors do not exist in electron optics, although they could be beneficial in existing techniques such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Yujia Yang , Chung-Soo Kim , Richard G. Hobbs , Pieter Kruit , Karl K. Berggren

Band-inverted electron-hole bilayers support quantum spin Hall insulator and exciton condensate phases. We investigate such a bilayer in an external magnetic field. We show that the interlayer correlations lead to formation of a helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 D. I. Pikulin , P. G. Silvestrov , T. Hyart

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems is explained by the emergent composite fermions (CF) out of ordinary electrons. It is possible to write down explicit wavefunctions explaining many if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Thierry Jolicoeur

Two dimensional electronic systems under strong magnetic field form quantum Hall (QH) edge states, which propagate along the boundary of a sample with a dissipationless current. Engineering the pathway of these propagating one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Ke Wang , Achim Harzheim , Ji Ung Lee , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Philip Kim

We propose direct experimental tests of the effective models of fractional quantum Hall edge states. We first recall a classification of effective models based on the requirement of anomaly cancellation and illustrate the general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Alexey Boyarsky , Juerg Froehlich , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Remarkable recent experiments have observed fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects at zero field and unusually high temperatures in twisted semiconductor bilayer $t$MoTe$_2$. Intriguing observations in these experiments such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu , Emil J. Bergholtz

A beam splitter is a key component used to direct and combine light paths in various optical and microwave systems. It plays a crucial role in devices like interferometers, such as the Mach-Zehnder and Hong-Ou-Mandel setups, where it splits…

Confined to a two-dimensional plane, electrons in a strong magnetic field travel along the edge in one-dimensional quantum Hall channels that are protected against backscattering. These channels can be used as solid-state analogues of…

Edge states reflect the key physical properties yet are difficult to probe individually, particularly when several states are present at an edge. We present momentum resolved tunneling spectroscopy between a quantum well and a quantum wire…

We consider tunneling between two edges of Quantum Hall liquids (QHL) of filling factors $\nu_{0,1}=1/(2 m_{0,1}+1)$, with $m_0 \geq m_1\geq 0$, through two point contacts forming Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Quasi-particle description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-15 Vadim V. Ponomarenko , Dmitri V. Averin

We theoretically design and analytically study a controllable beam splitter for the spin wave propagating in a star-shaped (e.g., a $Y$-shaped beam) spin network. Such a solid state beam splitter can display quantum interference and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 S. Yang , Z. Song , C. P. Sun