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We report experimental realization of a quasiparticle interferometer where the entire system is in 1/3 primary fractional quantum Hall state. The interferometer consists of chiral edge channels coupled by quantum-coherent tunneling in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. E. Camino , Wei Zhou , V. J. Goldman

Non-Abelian anyons--particles whose exchange noncommutatively transforms a system's quantum state--are widely sought for the exotic fundamental physics they harbor as well as for quantum computing applications. There now exist numerous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-24 David J. Clarke , Jason Alicea , Kirill Shtengel

We made in this paper a brief analysis of the following statistics: Intermediate Statistics, Parastatistics, Fractionary Statistics and Gentileonic Statistics that predict the existence of particles which are different from bosons, fermions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-30 M. Cattani , J. M. F. Bassalo

Anyons are exotic quasiparticles obeying fractional statistics,whose behavior can be emulated in artificially designed spin systems.Here we present an experimental emulation of creating anyonic excitations in a superconducting circuit that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Y. P. Zhong , D. Xu , P. Wang , C. Song , Q. J. Guo , W. X. Liu , K. Xu , B. X. Xia , Chao-Yang Lu , Siyuan Han , Jian-Wei Pan , Haohua Wang

The braiding of the worldlines of particles restricted to move on a network (graph) is governed by the graph braid group, which can be strikingly different from the standard braid group known from two-dimensional physics. It has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Tomasz Maciazek , Mia Conlon , Gert Vercleyen , J. K. Slingerland

The charged anyons of a fractional quantum Hall fluid are necessarily dispersionless due to the continuous magnetic translation symmetry. Neutral anyons, however, can disperse, resulting in a much richer space of possible ``daughter''…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Zhaoyu Han , Taige Wang , Zhihuan Dong , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath

Exotic electronic states are realized in novel quantum materials. This field is revolutionized by the topological classification of materials. Such compounds necessarily host unique states on their boundaries. Scanning tunneling microscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nurit Avraham , Jonathan Reiner , Abhay Kumar-Nayak , Noam Morali , Rajib Batabyal , Binghai Yan , Haim Beidenkopf

The quantum Hall states at filling factors $\nu=5/2$ and $7/2$ are expected to have Abelian charge $e/2$ quasiparticles and non-Abelian charge $e/4$ quasiparticles. The non-Abelian statistics of the latter has been predicted to display a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 R. L. Willett , K. Shtengel , C. Nayak , L. N. Pfeiffer , Y. J. Chung , M. L. Peabody , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , .

The emergence of non-Abelian anyons from large collections of interacting elementary particles is a conceptually beautiful phenomenon with important ramifications for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Over the last few decades the field has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-08 Jason Alicea , Ady Stern

According to a basic rule of fermionic and bosonic many-body physics, known as the linked cluster theorem, physical observables are not affected by vacuum bubbles, which represent virtual particles created from vacuum and self-annihilating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Cheolhee Han , Jinhong Park , Yuval Gefen , H. -S. Sim

The subject of bianyon interference with ultracold atoms is introduced through theoretical investigations pertaining to the second-order momentum correlation maps of two anyons (built upon spinless and spin-1/2 bosonic, as well as spin-1/2…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-15 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

Semiconductor nanowires provide an ideal platform for various low-dimensional quantum devices. In particular, topological phases of matter hosting non-Abelian quasi-particles can emerge when a semiconductor nanowire with strong spin-orbit…

Topological quantum states of matter, both Abelian and non-Abelian, are characterized by excitations whose wavefunctions undergo non-trivial statistical transformations as one excitation is moved (braided) around another. Topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chuanwei Zhang , V. W. Scarola , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

Electrons living in a two-dimensional world under a strong magnetic field - the so-called fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) - often manifest themselves as fractionally charged quasiparticles (anyons). Moreover, being under special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 R. Bhattacharyya , Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

We study how quantum states are scrambled via braiding in systems of non-Abelian anyons through the lens of entanglement spectrum statistics. In particular, we focus on the degree of scrambling, defined as the randomness produced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-21 Zhi-Cheng Yang , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Stefanos Kourtis , Claudio Chamon

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

A resonantly driven bosonic Josephson junction supports stable collective excitations, or quasiparticles, which constitute analogs of the Trojan wave packets previously explored with Rydberg atoms in strong microwave fields. We predict a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-25 Bettina Gertjerenken , Martin Holthaus

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

Recent schemes for experimentally probing non-abelian statistics in the quantum Hall effect are based on geometries where current-carrying quasiparticles flow along edges that encircle bulk quasiparticles, which are localized. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Rosenow , B. I. Halperin , S. H. Simon , Ady Stern

Despite their inextricable quantum mechanical nature, events at a high energy particle collider experiment typically have very few unambiguous quantum signatures, due the type of data and the manner in which they are collected. We present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Andrew J. Larkoski