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We propose a setup to directly measure the anyonic statistical angle on a single edge of a fractional quantum Hall system, without requiring independent knowledge of non-universal parameters. We consider a Laughlin edge state bent into a…

It was recently pointed out that Halperin's 113 topological order explains the transport experiments in the quantum Hall liquid at filling factor $\nu=5/2$. The 113 order, however, cannot be easily distinguished from other likely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 Guang Yang

We propose multi-particle interference protocols in the time-energy domain which are able to probe localized topological quasiparticles. Using a set of quantum dots tunnel-coupled to a topologically nontrivial system, the time dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , Y. Gefen

We show how shot noise in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime probes the charge and statistics of quantum Hall quasiparticles. The dependence of the noise on the magnetic flux through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. E. Feldman , Yuval Gefen , Alexei Kitaev , K. T. Law , Ady Stern

Quasi-particles in fractional quantum Hall states are collective excitations that carry fractional charge and anyonic statistics. While the fractional charge affects semi-classical characteristics such as shot noise and charging energies,…

We examine the relation between different electronic transport phenomena in a Fabry-Perot interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime. In particular, we study the way these phenomena reflect the statistics of quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 Ady Stern , Bernd Rosenow , Roni Ilan , Bertrand I. Halperin

The low-energy dynamics of two-dimensional topological matter hinges on its one-dimensional edge modes. Tunneling between fractional quantum Hall edge modes facilitates the study of anyonic statistics: it induces time-domain braiding that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Gu Zhang , Igor Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

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

We propose and analyze the effect of anyonic interferometers that are designed such that the probe anyons traveling in a given path through the interferometer twist or braid around each other. These "twisted" interferometers are found to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Parsa Bonderson , Lukasz Fidkowski , Michael Freedman , Kevin Walker

We introduce a synthetic Mach-Zehnder interferometer for digitized quantum computing devices to probe fractional exchange statistics of anyonic excitations that appear in quantum spin liquids. Employing an IonQ quantum computer, we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Shiyu Zhou , Yi Teng , Claudio Chamon , Claudio Castelnovo , Armin Rahmani

We study theoretically electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built from integer quantum Hall edge states, showing that the results of recent experiments can be understood in terms of multiparticle interference effects. These experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-27 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

We demonstrate that phase-dependent heat currents through superconductor-topological insulator Josephson junctions provide a useful tool to probe the existence of topological Andreev bound states, even for multi-channel surface states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Björn Sothmann , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We investigate the temperature and voltage dependence of the quantum interference in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer using edge channels in the integer quantum-Hall-regime. The amplitude of the interference fringes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. V. Litvin , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

The behavior of a collection of identical particles is intimately linked to the symmetries of their wavefunction under particle exchange. Topological anyons, arising as quasiparticles in low-dimensional systems, interpolate between bosons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joe Dunlop , Álvaro Tejero , Michalis Skotiniotis , Daniel Manzano

In an electromechanical which-path device electrons travelling through an Aharonov-Bohm ring with a quantum dot in one of the arms are dephased by an interaction with the fundamental flexural mode of a radio-frequency cantilever, leading to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Armour , M. P. Blencowe

We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric properties of heat engines based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers. The energy dependence of the transmission amplitudes in such setups arises from a difference in the interferometer arm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Patrick P. Hofer , Björn Sothmann

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

Interferometry of non-Abelian edge excitations is a useful tool in topological quantum computing. In this paper we present a theory of a non-Abelian edge state interferometer in a 3D topological insulator brought in proximity to an s-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 Johan Nilsson , A. R. Akhmerov

We theoretically investigate coherent oscillations of the thermopower $\mathcal{S}$ as a function of the magnetic flux $\Phi$ in six-terminal Andreev interferometers. We demonstrate that the thermopower behavior is determined by a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Measurements of elastic and inelastic cotunneling currents are presented on a two-terminal Aharonov--Bohm interferometer with a Coulomb blockaded quantum dot embedded in each arm. Coherent current contributions, even in magnetic field, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Sigrist , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Matthias Reinwald , Werner Wegscheider