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We consider a mesoscopic circuit in the quantum Hall effect regime comprising two synchronized single-particle sources emitting particles into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. While particles from one source can possibly interfere at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Stefan Juergens , Janine Splettstoesser , Michael Moskalets

We report the polarization-dependent electromagnetic response from a series of novel terahertz (THz) metasurfaces where asymmetry is introduced through the displacement of two adjacent metallic arms separated by a distance $\delta$. For all…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Joshua A. Burrow , Riad Yahiaoui , Andrew Sarangan , Imad Agha , Jay Mathews , Thomas A. Searles

Electronic interferometers in the quantum Hall regime are one of the best tools to study the statistical properties of localized quasiparticles in the topologically protected bulk. However, since their behavior is probed via chiral edge…

We consider general three-mode interferometers using a spin-1 atomic Bose-Einstein condensate with macroscopic magnetization. We show that these interferometers, combined with the measurement of the number of particles in each output port,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-26 Artur Niezgoda , Dariusz Kajtoch , Emilia Witkowska

Two-dimensional hole gases (2DHGs) have strong intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and could be used to build spin filters by utilising transverse magnetic focusing (TMF). However, with an increase in the spin degree of freedom, holes demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yik K. Lee , Jackson S. Smith , Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer , Oleg P. Sushkov , Alexander R. Hamilton , Jared H. Cole

We investigate the striking absence of strong localisation observed in mesoscopic two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) (Baenninger et al 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 1016805, Backes et al 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 235427) even when their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Dirk Backes , Richard Hall , Michael Pepper , Harvey Beere , David Ritchie , Vijay Narayan

We propose a scheme to explore two-photon high-dimensional entanglement associated with a transverse pattern by means of two-photon interference in a beamsplitter. We find that the topological symmetry of the angular spectrum of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gui-Fang Dang , Li-Ping Deng , Kaige Wang

We study fermions in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, subject to a quantum-mechanical environment leading to inelastic scattering, decoherence, renormalization effects, and time-dependent conductance fluctuations. Both the loss of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Florian Marquardt

We present a detailed study of an atom interferometer which can be realized in a double-well potential. We assume that the interferometric phase is imprinted in the presence of coherent tunneling between the wells. We calculate the ultimate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-03-21 Karol Gietka , Jan Chwedenczuk

The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) is chosen to illustrate the long-standing wave particle duality problem. Why is which-way (welcher weg) information incompatible with wave interference? How to explain Wheeler's delayed choice…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Paul A. Klevgard

Imperfections in integrated photonics manufacturing have a detrimental effect on the maximal achievable visibility in interferometric architectures. These limits have profound implications for further photonics technological developments…

Electron optics in the solid state promises new functionality in electronics through the possibility of realizing micrometer-sized interferometers, lenses, collimators and beam splitters that manipulate electrons instead of light. Until…

This work discusses the possibility of using two-mode squeezed light to improve the performance of existing sensor technology with the focus on its miniaturization under realistic losses. Therefore, we analyze a system consisting of a part…

We experimentally demonstrate stable and user-adjustable single-photon interference in a 1 km long fiber- optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer, using an active phase control system with the feedback provided by a classical laser. We are able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-06 G. B. Xavier , J. P. von der Weid

In this paper, we investigate the influence of the symmetry of the biphoton wavefunction on the coincidence measurement of the generalized Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer, where there are a temporal and frequency shift operations between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Nicolas Fabre

Diffraction patterns of electrons are believed to resemble those of electromagnetic waves (EMW). I performed a series of experiments invoked to show that the periodicity of peaks in the diffraction diagram of electrons is concerned with the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Victor V. Demjanov

We have constructed an atom interferometer of the Mach-Zehnder type, operating with a supersonic beam of lithium. Atom diffraction uses Bragg diffraction on laser standing waves. With first order diffraction, our apparatus has given a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Delhuille , C. Champenois , M. Buchner , L. Jozefowski , C. Rizzo , G. Trenec , J. Vigue

Quantum interferometers are powerful tools for probing the wave-nature and exchange statistics of indistinguishable particles. Of particular interest are interferometers formed by the chiral, one-dimensional (1D) edge channels of the…

We study the evolution of a single-electron packet of Lorentzian shape along an edge of the integer quantum Hall regime or in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, considering a capacitive Coulomb interaction and using a bosonization approach.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Soo-Yong Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee , H. -S. Sim

Grover multiports are higher-dimensional generalizations of beam splitters, in which input to any one of the four ports has equal probability of exiting at any of the same four ports, including the input port. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 David S. Simon , Christopher R. Schwarze , Alexander V. Sergienko