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A highly non-thermal electron distribution is generated when quantum Hall edge states originating from sources at different potentials meet at a quantum point contact. The relaxation of this distribution to a stationary form as a function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

Electronic interferometers in the quantum Hall regime are one of the best tools to study the statistical properties of localized quasiparticles in the topologically protected bulk. However, since their behavior is probed via chiral edge…

In this work, we exploit the findings of the screening theory of the integer quantized Hall effect (QHE) based on the formation of the incompressible strips and its essential influence on the global resistances and propose certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 U. Erkarslan , G. Oylumluoglu , A. Siddiki

In the integer quantum Hall (IQH) regime, an antidot provides a finite, controllable `edge' of quantum Hall fluid that is an ideal laboratory for investigating the collective dynamics of large numbers of interacting electrons. Transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Lee C. Bassett

Topologically-protected edge states are dissipationless conducting surface states immune to impurity scattering and geometrical defects that occur in electronic systems characterized by a bulk insulating gap. One example can be found in a…

We report the observation of an unpredicted behavior of interfering 2D electrons in the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) regime via a utilization of an electronic analog of the well-known Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The beauty of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Neder , M. Heiblum , Y. Levinson , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

Generally speaking, the entanglement entropy (EE) between two subregions of a gapped quantum many-body state is proportional to the area/length of their interface due to the short range quantum correlation. However, the so-called area law…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Dan Ye , Yi Yang , Qi Li , Zi-Xiang Hu

We compute the exact single-particle time-resolved dynamics of electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers based on Landau edge-states transport, and assess the effect of the spatial localization of carriers on the interference pattern. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Andrea Beggi , Paolo Bordone , Fabrizio Buscemi , Andrea Bertoni

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on the charge and spin structures at the edge of integer quantum Hall liquids, under three different kinds of confining potentials. Our exact diagonalization calculation for small systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Yuhui Zhang , Kun Yang

The quantum Hall (QH) effect represents a unique playground where quantum coherence of electrons can be exploited for various applications, from metrology to quantum computation. In the fractional regime it also hosts anyons, emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Matteo Carrega , Luca Chirolli , Stefan Heun , Lucia Sorba

Using an innovative combination of a quasi-Corbino sample geometry and the cross-gate technique, we have developed a method that enables us to separately contact single edge channels in the quantum Hall regime and investigate equilibration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Wuertz , R. Wildfeuer , A. Lorke , E. V. Deviatov , V. T. Dolgopolov

Studies of energy flow in quantum systems complement the information provided by common conductance measurements. The quantum limit of heat flow in one dimensional (1D) ballistic modes was predicted, and experimentally demonstrated, to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Amir Rosenblatt , Sofia Konyzheva , Fabien Lafont , Noam Schiller , Jinhong Park , Kyrylo Snizhko , Moty Heiblum , Yuval Oreg , Vladimir Umansky

Coulomb effects on the edge states of a two dimensional electron gas in the presence of a high magnetic field are studied for different widths of the boundaries. Schr\"odinger and Poisson equations are selfconsistently solved in the integer…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Brey , J. J. Palacios , C. Tejedor

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

We use the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation for numerically addressing the integer quantum Hall (IQH) regime in terms of many-body physics at higher Landau levels (LL). The results exhibit a strong tendency to avoid the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Josef Oswald , Rudolf A Römer

The edges of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime are divided into alternating metallic and insulating strips, with their widths determined by the energy gaps of the QHE states and the electrostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Keji Lai , Worasom Kundhikanjana , Michael A. Kelly , Zhi-Xun Shen , Javad Shabani , Mansour Shayegan

We consider the dynamical properties of simple edge states in integer ($\nu = 1$) and fractional ($ \nu = 1/2m+1$) quantum Hall (QH) liquids. The influence of a time-dependent local perturbation on the ground state is investigated. It is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. V. Balatsky , S. I. Matveenko

We consider theoretically an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed from quantum Hall edge channels and quantum point contacts, fed with single electrons from a dynamic quantum dot source. By considering the energy dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Clarissa J. Barratt , Sungguen Ryu , Lewis A. Clark , H. -S. Sim , Masaya Kataoka , Clive Emary

Topologically nontrivial band structure of a material may give rise to special states that are confined to the material's boundary and protected against disorder and scattering. Quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is a paradigmatic example of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Luis Alberto Razo López , Pierre Wulles , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Sergey E. Skipetrov , Fabrice Mortessagne

Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers in the Quantum Hall (QH) regime are currently discussed for the realization of quantum information schemes. A recently proposed device architecture employs interference between two co-propagating edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 N. Paradiso , S. Heun , S. Roddaro , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , L. Sorba , G. Biasiol , F. Beltram