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Electronic interferometers using the chiral, one-dimensional (1D) edge channels of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) can demonstrate a wealth of fundamental phenomena. The recent observation of phase jumps in a Fabry-P\'erot (FP) interferometer…

A novel mesoscopic electron spectrometer allows for the probing of relaxation processes in quantum Hall edge channels. The device is composed of an emitter quantum dot that injects energy-resolved electrons into the channel closest to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Stefan G. Fischer , Jinhong Park , Yigal Meir , Yuval Gefen

The recent development of dynamic single-electron sources makes it possible to observe and manipulate the quantum properties of individual charge carriers in mesoscopic circuits. Here, we investigate multi-particle effects in an electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Janne Kotilahti , Pablo Burset , Michael Moskalets , Christian Flindt

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

We study electron transport through a multichannel fractional quantum Hall edge in the presence of both interchannel interaction and random tunneling between channels, with emphasis on the role of contacts. The prime example in our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 C. Spånslätt , Yuval Gefen , I. V. Gornyi , D. G. Polyakov

We show that Majorana edge modes appear in a strongly correlated phase of semiconducting nanowires with discrete rotational symmetry in the cross section. These modes exist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, magnetic fields and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Tommy Li , Michele Burrello , Karsten Flensberg

We use a novel scanning electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a conventional transmission electron microscope to perform inelastic interferometric imaging with free electrons. An electron wave function is prepared in two paths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , F. Javier García de Abajo , Benjamin J. McMorran

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

We propose a new architecture for implementing electronic interferometry in quantum Hall bars. It exploits scattering among parallel edge channels. In contrast to previous developments, this one employs a simply-connected mesa admitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vittorio Giovannetti , Fabio Taddei , Diego Frustaglia , Rosario Fazio

In the Quantum Hall regime, near integer filling factors, electrons should only be transmitted through spatially-separated edge states. However, in mesoscopic systems, electronic transmission turns out to be more complex, giving rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 B. Hackens , F. Martins , S. Faniel , C. A. Dutu , H. Sellier , S. Huant , M. Pala , L. Desplanque , X. Wallart , V. Bayot

We demonstrate that electrostatic interactions between helical electrons at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator and a dynamical impurity can induce quasi-elastic backscattering. Modelling the impurity as a two-level system, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

We study variable range hopping in the quantum Hall effect regime in the presence of a metallic gate parallel to the plane of a two-dimensional electron gas. Screening of the Coulomb interaction by the gate causes the partial ``filling'' of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 I. L. Aleiner , B. I. Shklovskii

The determination of the effective Coulomb interactions to be used in low-energy Hamiltonians for materials with strong electronic correlations remains one of the bottlenecks for parameter-free electronic structure calculations. We propose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Priyanka Seth , Philipp Hansmann , Ambroise van Roekeghem , Loig Vaugier , Silke Biermann

We present a novel and efficient real space, semiclassical model of electric polarization with general applicability to any system in which screening plays an important role. This model includes the effects of both atomic and bond…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-24 Nassim Derriche , George Sawatzky

Measurements of elastic and inelastic cotunneling currents are presented on a two-terminal Aharonov--Bohm interferometer with a Coulomb blockaded quantum dot embedded in each arm. Coherent current contributions, even in magnetic field, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Sigrist , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Matthias Reinwald , Werner Wegscheider

Particle-wave duality enables the construction of interferometers for matter waves, which complement optical interferometers in precision measurement devices. This requires the development of atom-optics analogs to beam splitters, phase…

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 investigate the Full Counting Statistics of an electrical Mach-Zehnder interferometer penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm flux, and in the presence of a classical fluctuating potential. Of interest is the suppression of the Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Heidi Forster , Sebastian Pilgram , Markus Buttiker

Dynamic conductance and time-of-flight current instability in a quantum wire connected to electron reservoirs under DC bias voltage are studied in the absence of a gate screening the Coulomb interaction of electrons. Due to a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Bagun S. Shchamkhalova , Vladimir A. Sablikov

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