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We calculate the tunnelling current through a Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime. Within linear response theory (weak tunnelling but arbitrary source-drain voltage) we find a general expression for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Olaf Smits , Steven H. Simon , J. K. Slingerland

Mach-Zehnder interferometry has been proposed as a probe for detecting the statistics of anyonic quasiparticles in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Here we focus on interferometers made of multimode edge states with upstream modes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Moshe Goldstein , Yuval Gefen

We develop the theory of electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built from quantum Hall edge states at Landau level filling factor \nu = 2, which have been investigated in a series of recent experiments and theoretical studies. We show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-11 M. J. Rufino , D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric properties of heat engines based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers. The energy dependence of the transmission amplitudes in such setups arises from a difference in the interferometer arm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Patrick P. Hofer , Björn Sothmann

Confined to a two-dimensional plane, electrons in a strong magnetic field travel along the edge in one-dimensional quantum Hall channels that are protected against backscattering. These channels can be used as solid-state analogues of…

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

We demonstrate Mach-Zehnder-type interferometry in a superconducting flux qubit. The qubit is a tunable artificial atom, whose ground and excited states exhibit an avoided crossing. Strongly driving the qubit with harmonic excitation sweeps…

We introduce a synthetic Mach-Zehnder interferometer for digitized quantum computing devices to probe fractional exchange statistics of anyonic excitations that appear in quantum spin liquids. Employing an IonQ quantum computer, we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Shiyu Zhou , Yi Teng , Claudio Chamon , Claudio Castelnovo , Armin Rahmani

We investigate the temperature and voltage dependence of the quantum interference in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer using edge channels in the integer quantum-Hall-regime. The amplitude of the interference fringes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. V. Litvin , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

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

We study theoretically electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built from integer quantum Hall edge states, showing that the results of recent experiments can be understood in terms of multiparticle interference effects. These experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-27 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

It was recently pointed out that Halperin's 113 topological order explains the transport experiments in the quantum Hall liquid at filling factor $\nu=5/2$. The 113 order, however, cannot be easily distinguished from other likely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 Guang Yang

We study nonequilibrium properties of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer built from integer quantum Hall edge states at filling fraction $\nu{=}1$. For a model in which electrons interact only when they are inside the interferometer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

Fractional charge and statistics are hallmarks of low-dimensional interacting systems such as fractional quantum Hall (QH) systems. Integer QH systems are regarded noninteracting, yet they can have fractional charge excitations when they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 June-Young M. Lee , Cheolhee Han , H. -S. Sim

Recent advances in quantum photonics have enabled increasingly robust protocols in optical phase estimation, achieving precisions beyond the standard quantum limit and approaching the Heisenberg limit. While intrinsic losses hinder the…

We propose a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer for a $\nu=2/5$ fractional quantum Hall edge system, in which quasiparticles tunnel between two co-propagating edge modes. In contrast to the previously studied anyonic Fabry-P\'{e}rot and…

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 investigate an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with high visibility in the quantum Hall regime. The superposition of the electrostatic potentials from a quantum point contact (QPC) and the residual disorder potential from doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. V. Litvin , A. Helzel , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

The recent development of dynamic single-electron sources makes it possible to observe and manipulate the quantum properties of individual charge carriers in mesoscopic circuits. Here, we investigate multi-particle effects in an electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Janne Kotilahti , Pablo Burset , Michael Moskalets , Christian Flindt

Fractional quantum Hall quasiparticles are famous for having fractional electric charge. Recent experiments report that the quasiparticles' effective electric charge determined through tunneling current noise measurements can depend on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-02 Kyrylo Snizhko