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We study nonequilibrium dephasing in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. We demonstrate that the shot noise at the beam splitter of the interferometer generates an ensemble of nonequilibrium electron density configurations and that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Seok-Chan Youn , Hyun-Woo Lee , H. -S. Sim

In this paper, we study a quantum harmonic oscillator in a Mach-Zehnder-type interferometer which interacts with an environment, including electromagnetic oscillators. By solving the Lindblad master equation, we calculate the resulted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Ali Soltanmanesh , Afshin Shafiee

This work was motivated by the quest for observing interference of fractionally charged quasi particles. Here, we study the behavior of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) at the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) regime at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Itamar Gurman , Ron Sabo , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

The coherent control of a two-level system is among the most essential challenges in modern quantum optics. Understanding its fundamental limitations is crucial, also for the realization of next generation quantum devices. The quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Michael K. Koch , Vibhav Bharadwaj , Alexander Kubanek

We review different attempts to show the decoherence process in double-slit-like experiments both for charged particles (electrons) and neutral particles with permanent dipole moments. Interference is studied when electrons or atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

The destruction of quantum-mechanical phase coherence by a fluctuating quantum bath has been investigated mostly for a single particle. However, for electronic transport through disordered samples and mesoscopic interference setups, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Florian Marquardt

Preparing and detecting spatially extended quantum superpositions of a massive object comprises an important fundamental test of quantum theory. These quantum states are extremely fragile and tend to quickly decay into incoherent mixtures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Oleg Lychkovskiy

Images of electron flow through a two-dimensional electron gas from a quantum point contact (QPC) can be obtained at liquid He temperatures using scanning probe microscopy (SPM). A negatively charged SPM tip depletes the electron gas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , M. A. Topinka , R. M. Westervelt , S. E. J. Shaw , E. J. Heller , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

Non-classical states of light find applications in enhancing the performance of optical interferometric experiments, with notable example of gravitational wave-detectors. Still, the presence of decoherence hinders significantly the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , M. Jarzyna , J. Kolodynski

Decoherence in many solid-state systems is anomalously high, frustrating efforts to make solid-state qubits. We show that in nanomagnetic insulators in large transverse fields, there can be a fairly narrow field region in which both phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. E. Stamp , I. S. Tupitsyn

In recent years, counter-intuitive results have shown that the quantum Hall edge states with topological protection can be dissipative. In this paper, we point out that the non-equilibrium nature of edge states in quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

The quantum coherence of electrons can be probed by studying weak localization corrections to the conductivity. Interaction effects lead to dephasing, with electron-electron interactions being the important intrinsic mechanism. A…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin , Gerd Schön

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

Electron microscopy relies on the spatial coherence of electron beams to generate atomic-scale images using interference and diffraction, which can be degraded by inelastic scattering processes that induce decoherence. Here, we present a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Cruz I. Velasco , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

Controlled dephasing of electrons, via 'which path' detection, involves, in general, coupling a coherent system to a current driven noise source. However, here, we present a case in which a nearly isolated electron puddle at thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 E. Weisz , H. K. Choi , M. Heiblum , Yuval Gefen , V. Umansky , D. Mahalu

I show that the decoherence in a system of $N$ degenerate two--level atoms interacting with a bosonic heat bath is for any number of atoms $N$ governed by a generalized Hamming distance (called ``decoherence metric'') between the superposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Braun

The possibility to exploit quantum coherence to strongly enhance the efficiency of charge transport in solid state devices working at ambient conditions would pave the way to disruptive technological applications. In this work, we tackle…

Quantum instruments derived from composite systems allow greater measurement precision than their classical counterparts due to coherences maintained between N components; spins, atoms or photons. Decoherence that plagues real-world devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Sergey I. Knysh , Edward H. Chen , Gabriel A. Durkin

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

Quantum physics rules the dynamics of small objects as they interact over microscopic length scales. Nevertheless, quantum correlations involving macroscopic distances can be observed between entangled photons as well as in atomic gases and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Cruz I. Velasco , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo