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One of the hallmark experiments of quantum transport is the observation of the quantized resistance in a point contact formed with split gates in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Being carried out on a single material, they represent in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Holger Thierschmann , Emre Mulazimoglu , Nicola Manca , Srijit Goswami , Teun M. Klapwijk , Andrea D. Caviglia

When the electric conductance of a nano-sized metal is measured at low temperatures, it often exhibits complex but reproducible patterns as a function of external magnetic fields, called quantum fingerprints in electric conductance. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Shunsuke Daimon , Kakeru Tsunekawa , Shinji Kawakami , Takashi Kikkawa , Rafael Ramos , Koichi Oyanagi , Tomi Ohtsuki , Eiji Saitoh

The scattering of exotic quasiparticles may follow different rules than electrons. In the fractional quantum Hall regime, a quantum point contact (QPC) provides a source of quasiparticles with field effect selectable charges and statistics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 P. Glidic , O. Maillet , C. Piquard , A. Aassime , A. Cavanna , Y. Jin , U. Gennser , A. Anthore , F. Pierre

We analyze electron paths in a solid-state double-slit interferometer based on the two-dimensional electron gas and their mapping by the scanning gate microscopy (SGM). A device with a quantum point source contact of a split exit and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 K. Kolasiński , B. Szafran

Matter-wave interferometry with nanoparticles will enable the development of quantum sensors capable of probing ultraweak fields with unprecedented applications for fundamental physics. The high sensitivity of such devices however makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Paolo Fragolino , Martine Schut , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

The present paper generalizes preceding papers of the author and opens a cycle of works concerning the general posing and solution in analytic form of the quantum-mechanical inverse scattering problem (for a given partial channel) in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Muzafarov

Existing scalable superconducting quantum processors have only nearest-neighbor coupling. This leads to reduced circuit depth, requiring large series of gates to perform an arbitrary unitary operation in such systems. Recently, multi-modal…

Through a combination of experiment and theory we establish the possibility of achieving strong tuning of Fano resonances (FRs), by allowing their usual two-path geometry to interfere with an additional, 'intruder', continuum. As the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 J. Fransson , M. -G. Kang , Y. Yoon , S. Xiao , Y. Ochiai , J. L. Reno , N. Aoki , J. P. Bird

We compare the conductance of an undoped graphene sheet with a small region subject to an electrostatic gate potential for the cases that the dynamics in the gated region is regular (disc-shaped region) and classically chaotic (stadium).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 J. H. Bardarson , M. Titov , P. W. Brouwer

We report the detection of spin interference signal in an Aharonov-Bohm type interferometer with quantum dots on the conduction paths. We have found that resonators like quantum dots can work as efficient spin rotators. The interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Yu Iwasaki , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

We demonstrate the emergence of classical features in electronic quantum transport for the scanning gate microscopy response in a cavity defined by a quantum point contact and a micron-sized circular reflector. The branches in electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Keith R. Fratus , Camille Le Calonnec , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Guillaume Weick , Dietmar Weinmann

The influence of the interference of electron waves, which were scattered by single impurities, on nonlinear quantum conductance of metallic microconstrictions (as was recently investigated experimentally) is studied theoretically. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Namiranian , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , A. N. Omelyanchouk

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 studied ballistic transport across a quantum point contact (QPC) defined in a high-quality, GaAs (311)A two-dimensional (2D) hole system using shallow etching and top-gating. The QPC conductance exhibits up to 11 quantized plateaus. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Shabani , J. R. Petta , M. Shayegan

Transmission through a quantum point contact (QPC) in the quantum Hall regime usually exhibits multiple resonances as a function of gate voltage and high nonlinearity in bias. Such behavior is unpredictable and changes sample by sample.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Changki Hong , Jinhong Park , Yunchul Chung , Hyungkook Choi , Vladimir Umansky

Electron interferometry with quantum Hall edge channels holds promise for probing and harnessing exotic exchange statistics of non-Abelian anyons. In semiconductor heterostructures, however, quantum Hall interferometry has proven…

Low-energy transport measurements in Quantum Hall systems have been argued to be governed by emergent modular symmetries whose predictions are robust against many of the detailed microscopic dynamics. We propose the recently-observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. P. Burgess , B. P. Dolan

We study electron transport through a triple quantum dot in ring configuration at finite bias. In particular, we analyze the influence of a gate voltage that detunes one of the dots, such that one branch of the interferometer becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 Fernando Domínguez , Gloria Platero , Sigmund Kohler

The electronic transport of a noninteracting quantum ring side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We found that the system develops an oscillating band with antiresonances and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. A. Orellana , M. L. Ladron de Guevara , M. Pacheco , A. Latge

The interplay between quantum geometry and electron correlation has emerged as a compelling paradigm in quantum many-body physics. Recent studies have highlighted the diagnostic utility of quantum geometry in identifying magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Min-Fong Yang