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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) can host an intriguing variety of gate-tunable correlated states, including superconducting and correlated insulator states. Junction-based superconducting devices, such as Josephson junctions…

We propose an electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) scheme where a nonzero AB phase difference appears even if the interferometer paths do not enclose a magnetic flux and are subjected to negligible scalar potential differences during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Pablo L. Saldanha

We study the real time dynamics of electron coherence in a double quantum dot two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm geometry, taking into account repulsion effects between the dots' electrons. The system is simulated by extending a numerically exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Salil Bedkihal , Dvira Segal

Quantum tunneling of an electron through a classically forbidden regime has no classical analogue and several aspects of it are still not well understood. In this work we analyze electronic currents under the barrier. For this we consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sreemoyee Mukherjee , P. Singha Deo , A. M. Jayannavar

We analytically and numerically investigate an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with two superconducting terminals and a strongly correlated quantum dot in one arm. Through a rigorous derivation, we prove that this double-path interferometer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Peter Zalom , Don Rolih , Rok Žitko

The conductance G through a closed Aharonov-Bohm mesoscopic solid-state interferometer (which conserves the electron current), with a quantum dot (QD) on one of the paths, depends only on cos(phi), where Phi= (hbar c phi)/e is the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Yoseph Imry

Multi-terminal Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings are ideal building blocks for quantum networks (QNs) thanks to their ability to map input states into controlled coherent superpositions of output states. We report on experiments performed on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 E. Strambini , V. Piazza , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , F. Beltram

We report experiments on the interference through spin states of electrons in a quantum dot (QD) embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. We have picked up a spin-pair state, for which the environmental conditions are ideally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hisashi Aikawa , Kensuke Kobayashi , Akira Sano , Shingo Katsumoto , Yasuhiro Iye

Majorana zero modes are leading candidates for topological quantum computation due to non-local qubit encoding and non-abelian exchange statistics. Spatially separated Majorana modes are expected to allow phase-coherent single-electron…

We investigate ballistic transport and quantum interference in a nanoscale quantum wire loop fab-ricated as a GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect heterostructure. Four-terminal measurements of current and voltage characteristics as a function of top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 S. S. Buchholz , S. F. Fischer , U. Kunze , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

The unique properties of quantum Hall devices arise from the ideal one-dimensional edge states that form in a two-dimensional electron system at high magnetic field. Tunnelling between edge states across a quantum point contact (QPC) has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 F. Martins , S. Faniel , B. Rosenow , H. Sellier , S. Huant , M. G. Pala , L. Desplanque , X. Wallart , V. Bayot , B. Hackens

Quantum antidot, a small potential hill introduced into a two-dimensional electron system, presents an attractive tool to study quantum mechanics of interacting electrons.Here, we report experiments on electron resonant tunneling via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-24 V. J. Goldman , Jun Liu , A. Zaslavsky

A half-mirror that divides a spin-polarized electron into two parallel copropagating spin-resolved quantum Hall edge channels one half each is presented in this study. The partition process was coherent, as confirmed by observing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Takase Shimizu , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akira Endo , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

We have explored phase coherent transport of holes in two p-type GaAs quantum rings with orbital radii 420 nm and 160 nm fabricated with AFM oxidation lithography. Highly visible Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations are measured in both rings,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 Boris Grbic , Renaud Leturcq , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

We study a multi-functional device for cold atoms consisting of a three-terminal ring circuit pierced by a synthetic magnetic flux, where the ring can be continuous or discretized. The flux controls the atomic current through the ring via…

We investigate the magnetoresistance of a side-gated ring structure etched out of single-layer graphene. We observe Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with about 5% visibility. We are able to change the relative phases of the wave functions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Magdalena Huefner , Françoise Molitor , Arnhild Jacobsen , Alessandro Pioda , Christoph Stampfer , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference patterns in ring-shaped conductors are usually dominated by random features. The amplitude of the oscillations is random from sample to sample and from point to point on the magnetic field axis owing to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Liu , W. X. Gao , K. Ismail , K. Y. Lee , J. M. Hong , S. Washburn

Non-Abelian e/4 quasiparticles at 5/2 filling factor in a correlated two-dimensional electron gas have a proposed specific property in an interference measurement of their edge propagation: encircling an even number of localized e/4…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 R. L. Willett , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We present GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well devices that can operate as both electron-hole (e-h) and hole-hole (h-h) bilayers, with separating barriers as narrow as 5 nm or 7.5 nm. With such narrow barriers, in the h-h configuration we…

We discuss devices for detection of the topological insulator phase based on the two-path electron interference. For that purpose we consider buckled silicene for which a local energy gap can be opened by vertical electric field to close…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Bartłomiej Rzeszotarski , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Bartłomiej Szafran