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Phase relaxation of electrons transferring through an electromechanical transistor is studied using the Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. With the approach of quantum master equation, the phase properties of an electron are numerically analyzed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Wenxi Lai , Yunhui Xing , Zhongshui Ma

Recent experiments involving semiconducting quantum dots embedded in Aharonov-Bohm interferometry setups suggest that information concerning the phase of electron wavefunctions can be obtained from transport measurements. Here we review the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuval Gefen

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor structures attract increasing attention owing to a variety of potential applications in quantum computing devices. They can serve to the realization of topological superconducting systems, as well as…

We study how the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity is modified in two-dimensional crystals with broken time-reversal symmetry due to weak inhomogeneity of the applied electric field. Focusing on a clean noninteracting two-band system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Vladyslav Kozii , Alexander Avdoshkin , Shudan Zhong , Joel E. Moore

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

We study the role of Coulomb interaction in an electronic Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) realized with chiral edge states in the integer quantum Hall regime in the limit of weak backscattering. Assuming that a compressible Coulomb island…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stephane Ngo Dinh , Dmitry A. Bagrets

We present transport measurements performed in InAs/GaSb double quantum wells. At the electron-hole crossover tuned by a gate voltage, a strong increase in the longitudinal resistivity is observed with increasing perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Fabrizio Nichele , Atindra Nath Pal , Patrick Pietsch , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Christophe Charpentier , Werner Wegscheider

We report the observation of two fundamental sub-gap transport processes through a quantum dot (QD) with a superconducting contact. The device consists of a carbon nanotube contacted by a Nb superconducting and a normal metal contact.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 J. Gramich , A. Baumgartner , C. Schönenberger

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…

We present a scheme for high sensitivity charge detection in the integer quantum Hall regime using two point contacts in a series. The setup is an electronic analog of an optical Fabry-Perot interferometer. We show that for small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. K. Pathak , Kicheon Kang

Graphene enables precise carrier-density control via gating, making it an ideal platform for studying electronic interactions. However, sample inhomogeneities often limit access to the low-density regimes where these interactions dominate.…

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

We address the recently-observed unexpected behavior of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer that was realized experimentally in a quantum Hall system [1]. We argue that the measured lobe structure in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Vadim V. Cheianov

The chiral topological superconductor, which supports propagating nontrivial edge modes while maintaining a gapped bulk, can be realized hybridizing a quantum-anomalous-Hall thin slab with an ordinary $s$-wave superconductor. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Daniele Di Miceli , Llorenç Serra

Although the conductance of a closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, with a quantum dot on one branch, obeys the Onsager symmetry under magnetic field reversal, it needs not be a periodic function of this field: the conductance maxima move…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Tomohiro Otsuka , Shingo Katsumoto , Hisashi Aikawa , Kensuke Kobayashi

We investigate an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with high visibility in the quantum Hall regime. The superposition of the electrostatic potentials from a quantum point contact (QPC) and the residual disorder potential from doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. V. Litvin , A. Helzel , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

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

Parafermionic zero modes are a novel set of excitations displaying non-Abelian statistics somewhat richer than that of Majorana modes. These modes are predicted to occur when nearby fractional quantum Hall edge states are gapped by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Yahya Alavirad , David Clarke , Amit Nag , Jay D. Sau

There is a close analogy between the response of a quantum Hall liquid (QHL) to a small change in the electron density and the response of a superconductor to an externally applied magnetic flux - an analogy which is made concrete in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 S. A. Parameswaran , S. A. Kivelson , E. H. Rezayi , S. H. Simon , S. L. Sondhi , B. Z. Spivak

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