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We discuss the propagation and fractionalization of localized charges on the edges of quantum Hall bars of variable widths, where interactions between the edges give rise to Luttinger liquid behavior with a non-trivial interaction parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Mats Horsdal , Marianne Rypestøl , Hans Hansson , Jon Magne Leinaas

I review why and how physical states with fractional quantum numbers can occur, emphasizing basic mechanisms in simple contexts. The general mechanism of charge fractionalization is the passage from states created by local action of fields…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Frank Wilczek

The integer quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a lattice analog of the quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field. This striking transport phenomenon occurs in electronic systems with topologically nontrivial bands and spontaneous…

Laughlin quasiparticles are the elementary excitations of a highly-correlated fractional quantum Hall electron fluid. They have fractional charge and obey fractional statistics. The quasiparticles can propagate quantum-coherently in chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-11 F. E. Camino , Wei Zhou , V. J. Goldman

Anyonic fractional charges $e^*$ have been detected by autocorrelation shot noise at a quantum point contact (QPC) between two fractional quantum Hall edges. We find that the autocorrelation noise can also show a fingerprint of Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-05 Byeongmok Lee , Cheolhee Han , H. -S. Sim

Anyons are particles with fractional exchange statistics that emerge as elementary excitations of fractional quantum Hall phases. Experimentally, their exchange statistics can be measured in the edge-state Fabry-P\'erot interferometer. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Noah L. Samuelson , Liam A. Cohen , Will Wang , Simon Blanch , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Michael P. Zaletel , Andrea F. Young

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference of fractional quasiparticles in the quantum Hall Effect generally reveals their elementary charge ($e^*$)[1-15]. Recently, our interferometry experiments with several particle states reported flux periods of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Bikash Ghosh , Maria Labendik , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , David F. Mross

Even-denominator quantum Hall states can host several types of anyons with distinct exchange statistics. Depending on the anyon type, exchanging two quasiparticles can impart a phase to the many-body wave function or even transform it into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Jehyun Kim , Amit Shaer , Ravi Kumar , Alexey Ilin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ady Stern , David F. Mross , Yuval Ronen

Anyonic interferometry is a direct probe of fractional statistics. We propose an interferometry geometry that parallels an optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer and offers several advantages over existing interferometry schemes. In contrast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Navketan Batra , Zezhu Wei , Smitha Vishveshwara , D. E. Feldman

This paper proposes groove-like potential structures for the observation of quantum information processing by trapped particles. As an illustration the effect of quantum statistics at a 50-50 beam splitter is investigated. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Erika Andersson , Marcia T. Fontenelle , Stig Stenholm

Two dimensional electron systems exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effects are characterized by a quantized Hall conductance and a dissipationless bulk. The transport in these systems occurs only at the edges where gapless excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Hoang K. Nguyen , Ganpathy Murthy

In this paper we propose a new assignment for mutual exclusion statistics between quasielectrons and quasiholes in the fractional quantum Hall effect. In addition to providing numerical evidence for this assignment, we show that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Wu-Pei Su , Yong-Shi Wu , Jian Yang

Confinement of small-gapped fractional quantum Hall states facilitates quasiparticle manipulation and is an important step towards quasiparticle interference measurements. Demonstrated here is conduction through top gate defined, narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. L. Willett , M. J. Manfra , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The detection of fractionally charged quasiparticles, which arise in the fractional quantum Hall regime, is of fundamental importance for probing their exotic quantum properties. While electronic interferometers have been central to probe…

The fractional quantum Hall effect is a paradigm of topological order and has been studied thoroughly in two dimensions. Here, we construct a new type of fractional quantum Hall system, which has the special property that it lives in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-26 Sourav Manna , Biplab Pal , Wei Wang , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Transport experiments provide conflicting evidence on the possible existence of fractional order within integer quantum Hall systems. In fact integer edge states sometimes behave as monolithic objects with no inner structure, while other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Nicola Paradiso , Stefan Heun , Stefano Roddaro , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram , Giorgio Biasiol , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

In fractional quantum Hall fluids, the quasiparticle excitations are anyons with fractional charges and statistics. Effective interactions among the anyons can be induced by either model or realistic electron-electron (e-e) interactions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Qianhui Xu , Guangyue Ji , Yuzhu Wang , Ha Quang Trung , Bo Yang

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 study the fractionalization of an electron tunneling into a strongly interacting electronic one-dimensional ring. As a complement to transport measurements in quantum wires connected to leads, we propose non-invasive measures involving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-18 Wade DeGottardi , Siddhartha Lal , Smitha Vishveshwara

The single-particle spectral function for an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state in the presence of a scalar short-ranged attractive impurity potential is calculated via exact diagonalization within the spherical geometry. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller