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We propose an experiment for the first proof of the type I electric Aharonov-Bohm effect in an ion interferometer for hydrogen. The performances of three different beam separation schemes are simulated and compared. The coherent ion beam is…

We address the recently-observed unexpected behavior of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer that was realized experimentally in a quantum Hall system [1]. We argue that the measured lobe structure in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Vadim V. Cheianov

Neutral excitons in strained axially symmetric In(Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots with ringlike shape are investigated. Similar to experimental self-assembled quantum rings, the analyzed quantum dots have volcano-like shapes. The continuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vladimir V. Arsoski , Milan Ž. Tadić , François M. Peeters

A single-mode microcavity with an embedded Aharonov-Bohm quantum ring, which is pierced by a magnetic flux and subjected to a lateral electric field, is studied theoretically. It is shown that external electric and magnetic fields provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 A. M. Alexeev , I. A. Shelykh , M. E. Portnoi

We study a hybrid device defined in an InAs nanowire with an epitaxial Al shell that consists of a quantum dot in contact with a superconducting island. The device is electrically floating, prohibiting transport measurements, but providing…

We study theoretically the transmission through a quantum dot molecule embedded in the arms of an Aharonov-Bohm four quantum dot ring threaded by a magnetic flux. The tunable molecular coupling provides a transmission pathway between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Daniel A. Lovey , Sergio S. Gomez , Rodolfo H. Romero

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

We investigate quantum transport in micrometer-sized single crystals of Bi$_4$Br$_4$, a material predicted to be a second-order topological insulator. 1D topological states with long phase coherence times are revealed via the modulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 J. Lefeuvre , M. Kobayashi , G. Patriarche , N. Findling , D. Troadec , M. Ferrier , S. Guéron , H. Bouchiat , T. Sasagawa , R. Deblock

Quantum coherent properties of electrons can be studied in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometers. We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the transmission phase evolution in a four-terminal quasi-one-dimensional AlGaAs/GaAs-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Christoph Kreisbeck , Tobias Kramer , Sven S. Buchholz , Saskia F. Fischer , Ulrich Kunze , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

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

We study electron transport through a quantum interferometer with side-coupled quantum dots. The interferometer, threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, is attached symmetrically to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Santanu K. Maiti

Electron pairing is a rare phenomenon appearing only in a few unique physical systems; e.g., superconductors and Kondo-correlated quantum dots. Here, we report on an unexpected, but robust, electron "pairing" in the integer quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hyungkook Choi , Itamar Sivan , Amir Rosenblatt , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

We investigate nonlinear transport in electronic Fabry-Perot interferometers in the integer quantum Hall regime. For interferometers sufficiently large that Coulomb blockade effects are absent, a checkerboard-like pattern of conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-14 D. T. McClure , Yiming Zhang , B. Rosenow , E. M. Levenson-Falk , C. M. Marcus , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We calculate the oscillations of the DC conductance across a mesoscopic ring, simultaneously tuned by applied magnetic and electric fields orthogonal to the ring. The oscillations depend on the Aharonov-Bohm flux and of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capozza , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , A. Tagliacozzo

We consider the phase-coherent transport of electrons passing through an Aharonov-Bohm ring while interacting with a tunnel charge in a double quantum dot (representing a charge qubit) which couples symmetrically to both arms of the ring.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 Henning Schomerus , John P. Robinson

We present a magnetization measurement probing the transition from a quantum Hall to insulating (QH-I) state for a two-dimensional electron gas in a disordered GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. Using a highly sensitive DC torque magnetometer, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Faulhaber , H. W. Jiang

We theoretically examine the transport through an Aharonov-Bohm ring with an embedded quantum dot (QD), the so-called QD interferometer, to address two controversial issues regarding the shape of the Coulomb peaks and measurement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Mikio Eto , Rui Sakano

Quantum Hall (QH) interferometry provides an archetypal platform for the experimental realization of braiding statistics of fractional QH states. However, the complexity of observing fractional statistics requires phase coherence over the…

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

We investigate carrier transport in a single 22 nm-thick double-gated Si quantum well device, which has independent contacts to electrons and holes. Conductance, Hall density and Hall mobility are mapped in a broad double-gate voltage…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Prunnila , S. J. Laakso , J. M. Kivioja , J. Ahopelto