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Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferences in the quantum Hall regime can be achieved, provided that electrons are able to transmit between two edge channels in nanostructures. Pioneering approaches include quantum point contacts in 2DEG systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Viet Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Quantum interferometers are powerful tools for probing the wave-nature and exchange statistics of indistinguishable particles. Of particular interest are interferometers formed by the chiral, one-dimensional (1D) edge channels of the…

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in a graphene quantum ring with a top gate covering one arm of the ring. As graphene is a gapless semiconductor this geometry allows to study not only the quantum interference of electrons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Smirnov , H. Schmidt , R. J. Haug

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…

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 demonstrate a quantum Hall edge-channel interferometer in a high-quality graphene pn junction under a high magnetic field. The co-propagating p and n quantum Hall edge channels traveling along the pn interface functions as a built-in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sei Morikawa , Satoru Masubuchi , Rai Moriya , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tomoki Machida

We report experiments on a quantum electron interferometer fabricated from high mobility, low density GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure material. In this device, a nearly circular electron island is defined by four front gates deposited in etched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. E. Camino , W. Zhou , V. J. Goldman

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…

The charge and exchange statistics of an elementary excitation manifest in quantum coherent oscillations that can be explored in interferometry measurements. Quantum Hall interferometers are primary tools to uncover unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Hailong Fu , Ke Huang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Morteza Kayyalha , Jun Zhu

We investigate the quantum transport dynamics of electrons in a multi-path Aharonov-Bohm interferometer comprising several parallel graphene nanoribbons. At low magnetic field strengths, the conductance displays a complex oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Cynthia I. Osuala , Zitao Tang , Stefan Strauf , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Chunlei Qu

An apparent h/fe Aharonov-Bohm flux period, where f is an integer, has been reported in coherent quantum Hall devices. Such sub-period is not expected for non-interacting electrons and thus is thought to result from interelectron Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-19 Ping V. Lin , F. E. Camino , V. J. Goldman

We demonstrate that the phenomenon of current confinement along graphene n-p junctions at high magnetic fields can be used to form an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. The interference system exploits a closed n-p junction that can be induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Stefan Heun , Bartłomiej Szafran

We have studied quantum interference between electrons and holes in a split-ring gold interferometer with graphene arms, one of which contained a pn junction. The carrier type, the pn junction and the phase of the oscillations in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Soo Hyung Lee , Nina Markovic

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

We investigate the magnetoresistance of a side-gated ring structure etched out of single-layer graphene. We observe Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with about 5% visibility. We are able to change the relative phases of the wave functions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Magdalena Huefner , Françoise Molitor , Arnhild Jacobsen , Alessandro Pioda , Christoph Stampfer , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

We demonstrate operation of a small Fabry-Perot interferometer in which highly coherent Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes. Using a novel heterostructure design, Coulomb effects are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 James Nakamura , Saeed Fallahi , Harshad Sahasrabudhe , Rajib Rahman , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

Inverted-band $pn$ junctions in two-dimensional materials offer a promising platform for electron optics in condensed matter, as they allow to manipulate and guide electron beams without the need for spatial confinement. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yuhao Zhao , Oded Zilberberg , Antonio Štrkalj

Quantum-mechanical calculations of electron magnetotransport in graphene Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometers are presented with a focus on the role of spatial structure of edge channels. For an interferometer that is made by removing carbon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 S. Ihnatsenka

We analyze the magnetic field and gate voltage dependence of the longitudinal resistance in an integer quantum Hall Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer, taking into account the interactions between an interfering edge mode, a non-interfering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 Giovanni A. Frigeri , Daniel D. Scherer , Bernd Rosenow

We define a mesoscopic ring in a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) interrupted by two tunnel barriers, enabling us to apply a well-defined potential difference between the two halves of the ring. The electron interference in the ring is…

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