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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

Electronic Fabry-P{\'e}rot interferometry is a powerful method to probe quasiparticle charge and anyonic braiding statistics in the fractional quantum Hall regime. We extend this technique to the hierarchy $\nu = 2/5$ fractional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 James Nakamura , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

The search for anyons, quasiparticles with fractional charge and exotic exchange statistics, has inspired decades of condensed matter research. Quantum Hall interferometers enable direct observation of the anyon braiding phase via discrete…

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

In this paper, we report on the study of Abelian and non-Abelian statistics through Fabry-Perot interferometry of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems. Our detection of phase slips in quantum interference experiments demonstrates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Sanghun An , P. Jiang , H. Choi , W. Kang , S. H. Simon , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Utilizing an electronic Fabry-Perot interferometer in which Coulomb charging effects are suppressed, we report experimental observation of anyonic braiding statistics for the $\nu=1/3$ fractional quantum Hall state. Strong Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 James Nakamura , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

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 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

Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometry has emerged as a tool to probe anyon statistics in the quantum Hall effect. The interference phase is interpreted as a combination of a quantized statistical phase and an Aharonov-Bohm phase, proportional to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 D. E. Feldman , Bertrand I. Halperin

Anyon colliders -- quantum Hall devices where dilute quasiparticle beams collide at a quantum point contact -- provide an interferometer-free probe of anyonic exchange phases through current cross correlations. Within a non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Bernd Rosenow , Bertrand I. Halperin

Exchange statistics are a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, dictating the symmetry of identical particle wavefunctions and thereby enabling emergent phenomena of many-body quantum states. The exchange-induced unitary…

Quantum Hall interferometers have been used to probe fractional charge, and more recently, fractional statistics of quasiparticles. Theoretical predictions have been made regarding the effect of electrostatic coupling on interferometer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 James Nakamura , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

The fractional quantum Hall states have long been predicted to be a testing ground of fractional (anyonic) exchange statistics. These topological states harbor quasiparticles with fractional charges of both abelian and non-abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Hemanta Kumar Kundu , Sourav Biswas , Nissim Ofek , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum

We comment on the significance of the results in the paper by Nakamura et al (2020). The experimental result measures the phase for a repeated elementary exchange of two identical quasiparticles, and shows that the quasiparticles are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Nicholas Read , Sankar Das Sarma

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

We present a theoretical analysis of inequivalent classes of interference experiments with non-abelian anyons using an idealized Mach-Zender type interferometer. Because of the non-abelian nature of the braid group action one has to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. J. Overbosch , F. A. Bais

Direct experimental detection of anyonic exchange statistics in fractional quantum Hall systems by braiding the excitations and measuring the wave-function phase is an enormous challenge. Here, we use a small, noisy quantum computer to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-03 Ammar Kirmani , Derek S. Wang , Pouyan Ghaemi , Armin Rahmani

A Mach-Zehnder interferometer with absorbing Fabry-P\'{e}rot cavities is used to measure the optical phase differences upon rotation around a vertical axis. The details of the expected experimental results are described based on the idea…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-06 Victor-Otto de Haan

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

Three manifold topology is used to analyze the effect of anyonic interferometers in which the probe anyons' path along an arm crosses itself, leading to a "twisted" or braided space-time trajectory for the probe anyons. In the case of Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Parsa Bonderson , Lukasz Fidkowski , Michael Freedman , Kevin Walker
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