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It was recently suggested that a novel type of phase transition may occur in the visibility of electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. Here, we present experimental evidence for the existence of this transition. The transition is induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 A. Helzel , L. V. Litvin , I. P. Levkivskyi , E. V. Sukhorukov , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

In the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, interference fringes are observed for a charged particle in the absence of the local overlap with the external electromagnetic field. This notion of the apparent nonlocality of the interaction or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Kicheon Kang

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

Photon counting measurements are analyzed for obtaining a classical phase parameter in linear Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI), by the use of phase estimation theories. The detailed analysis is made for four cases: a) Coherent states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Improving interferometric phase sensitivity is crucial for high-precision measurements in rapidly developing quantum technologies. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is a versatile tool for analyzing this phenomenon. By splitting and…

By considering a nanoscale Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer containing a parrallel-coupled double dot coupled to the source and drain electrodes, we investigate the AB phase oscillations of transport current via the bonding and antibonding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Jian-Heng Liu , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Wei-Min Zhang

We present a numerical study of a multichannel electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, based on magnetically-driven non-interacting edge states. The electron path is defined by a full-scale potential landscape on the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Laura Bellentani , Andrea Beggi , Paolo Bordone , Andrea Bertoni

We measure the magneto-conductance through a micron-sized quantum dot hosting about 500 electrons in the quantum Hall regime. In the Coulomb blockade, when the island is weakly coupled to source and drain contacts, edge reconstruction at…

We study the entanglement between the two beams exiting a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a couple of squeezed-coherent states with arbitrary squeezing parameter. The quantum correlations at the output are function of the internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum coherent properties of electrons can be studied in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometers. We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the transmission phase evolution in a four-terminal quasi-one-dimensional AlGaAs/GaAs-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Christoph Kreisbeck , Tobias Kramer , Sven S. Buchholz , Saskia F. Fischer , Ulrich Kunze , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

We have studied the zero-temperature statistics of charge transfer between the two edges of Quantum Hall liquids with filling factors $\nu_{0,1}=1/(2 m_{0,1}+1)$ forming Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The known Bethe ansatz solution for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vadim V. Ponomarenko , Dmitri V. Averin

One material containing kagome bilayers and featuring both exceptional magnetism and electron transport is the ferromagnetic metal Fe3Sn2. Notwithstanding the widespread interest in Fe3Sn2, crystal twinning, difficulties in distinguishing…

It is shown that using beam splitters with non-equal wave vectors results in a new recoil diagram which is qualitatively different from the well-known diagram associated with the Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer. We predict a new asymmetric…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 B. Dubetsky

A quantum two-path interferometer allows for direct measurement of the transmission phase shift of an electron, providing useful information on coherent scattering problems. In mesoscopic systems, however, the two-path interference is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 S. Takada , M. Yamamoto , C. Bäuerle , K. Watanabe , A. Ludwig , A. D. Wieck , S. Tarucha

The Mach--Zehnder interferometer is a powerful device for detecting small phase shifts between two light beams. Simple input states -- such as coherent states or single photons -- can reach the standard quantum limit of phase estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ondřej Černotík , Iivari Pietikäinen , Shruti Puri , S. M. Girvin , Radim Filip

Chiral fermions in solid state feature "Fermi arc" states, connecting the surface projections of the bulk chiral nodes. The surface Fermi arc is a signature of nontrivial bulk topology. Unconventional chiral fermions with an extensive Fermi…

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

The work is motivated by the puzzling results of the recent experiment [S. Tewari et al., Phys. Rev. B 93, 035420 (2016)], where a robust coherence recovery from a certain energy was detected for an electron injected into the quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Anna S. Goremykina , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Breakthrough experiments have recently realized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials. However, all states observed are Abelian, the possible existence of more exotic non-Abelian FCIs remains controversial both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Hui Liu , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We compute the interference pattern of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer operating in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Our theoretical proposal is inspired by a remarkable experiment on edge states in the Integer Quantum Hall effect (IQHE).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibaut Jonckheere , Pierre Devillard , Adeline Crepieux , Thierry Martin