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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

Recent advances in programmable quantum devices brought to the fore the intriguing possibility of using them to realise and investigate topological quantum spin liquid phases. This new and exciting direction brings about important research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Shiyu Zhou , Maria Zelenayova , Oliver Hart , Claudio Chamon , Claudio Castelnovo

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

Fractional quantum statistics are the defining characteristic of anyons. Measuring the phase generated by an exchange of anyons is challenging, as standard interferometry setups -- such as the Fabry-P\'erot interferometer -- suffer from…

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

Anyonic Fabry-P\'erot and Mach-Zehnder interferometers have been proposed theoretically and implemented experimentally as tools to probe electric charges and statistics of anyons. The experimentally observed visibility of Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Navketan Batra , Zezhu Wei , Smitha Vishveshwara , D. E. Feldman

We present an experiment where we tune the decoherence in a quantum interferometer using one of the simplest object available in the physic of quantum conductors : an ohmic contact. For that purpose, we designed an electronic Mach-Zehnder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Roulleau , F. Portier , P. Roche , A. Cavanna , G. Faini , U. Gennser , D. Mailly

We study transport through an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer recently devised at the Weizmann Institute. We show that this device can be used to probe statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall regime. We calculate…

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

Mach-Zehnder interferometry has been proposed as a probe for detecting the statistics of anyonic quasiparticles in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Here we focus on interferometers made of multimode edge states with upstream modes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Moshe Goldstein , Yuval Gefen

The quantum Hall (QH) effect represents a unique playground where quantum coherence of electrons can be exploited for various applications, from metrology to quantum computation. In the fractional regime it also hosts anyons, emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Matteo Carrega , Luca Chirolli , Stefan Heun , Lucia Sorba

We use a Mach-Zehnder quantum Hall interferometer of a novel design to investigate the interference effects at fractional filling factors. Our device brings together the advantages of usual Mach-Zehnder and Fabry-Perot quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. V. Deviatov , S. V. Egorov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba

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

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

Since the anyonic excitations in the Kitaev toric model are perfectly localized quasiparticles, it is possible to generate dynamically the ground state and the excitations of the model Hamiltonian to simulate the anyonic interferometry. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 Zheng-Yuan Xue

Quantum interference is typically detected through the dependence of the interference signal on certain parameters (path length, Aharonov-Bohm flux, etc.), which can be varied in a controlled manner. The destruction of interference by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Iliya Esin , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

Nonlinear interferometers that replace beamsplitters in Mach-Zehnder interferometers with nonlinear amplifiers for quantum-enhanced phase measurements have drawn increasing interest in recent years, but practical quantum sensors based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 R. C. Pooser , N. Savino , E. Batson , J. L. Beckey , J. Garcia , B. J. Lawrie

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

Noise in quantum devices is generally considered detrimental to computational accuracy. However, the recent proposal of noise-assisted simulation has demonstrated that noise can be an asset in digital quantum simulations of open systems on…

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

We develop the general quantum measurement theory of non-Abelian anyons through interference experiments. The paper starts with a terse introduction to the theory of anyon models, focusing on the basic formalism necessary to apply standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Parsa Bonderson , Kirill Shtengel , J. K. Slingerland

As a general trend, nanoelectronics experiments are shifting toward frequencies so high that they become comparable to the device's internal characteristic time scales, resulting in new opportunities for studying the dynamical aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Benoit Gaury , Xavier Waintal
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