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We compute the interference pattern of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer operating in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Our theoretical proposal is inspired by a remarkable experiment on edge states in the Integer Quantum Hall effect (IQHE).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibaut Jonckheere , Pierre Devillard , Adeline Crepieux , Thierry Martin

We investigate the Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg-Majorana interferometry of a superconducting qubit in a semi-infinite transmission line terminated by a mirror. The transmon-type qubit is at the node of the resonant electromagnetic (EM) field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 P. Y. Wen , O. V. Ivakhnenko , M. A. Nakonechnyi , B. Suri , J. -J. Lin , W. -J. Lin , J. C. Chen , S. N. Shevchenko , Franco Nori , I. -C. Hoi

Recent breakthroughs in solid-state photonic quantum technologies enable generating and detecting single photons with near-unity efficiency as required for a range of photonic quantum technologies. The lack of methods to simultaneously…

The Mach--Zehnder interferometer is a powerful device for detecting small phase shifts between two light beams. Simple input states -- such as coherent states or single photons -- can reach the standard quantum limit of phase estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ondřej Černotík , Iivari Pietikäinen , Shruti Puri , S. M. Girvin , Radim Filip

We study Coulomb interactions in the finite bias response of Mach-Zehnder interferometers, which exploit copropagating edge states in the integer quantum Hall effect. Here, interactions are particularly important since the coherent coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Luca Chirolli , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti

We discuss complementarity and uncertainty in a gedanken Which-Way (Welcher-Weg) experiment in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Although a Welcher-Weg measurement can be performed with only a negligible amount of momentum change in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Ludwin , Y. Ben-Aryeh , A. Mann

Mach-Zehnder interferometer, a powerful tool for a wide variety of measurements, has been realized with Bose-Einstein condensates in recent experiments. In this report, we propose and analyze a realizable scheme for performing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Yixiao Huang , Wei Guo , Ning-Ju Hui , Zheng-Da Hu

We analyze the interference of individual photons in a linear-optical setup comprised of two overlapping Mach-Zehnder interferometers joined via a common beam splitter. We show how, in this setup, two kinds of standard interference effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Kevin J. Randles , S. J. van Enk

Quantum interference is typically detected through the dependence of the interference signal on certain parameters (path length, Aharonov-Bohm flux, etc.), which can be varied in a controlled manner. The destruction of interference by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Iliya Esin , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

Manipulating cold atoms in traps is a key tool for numerous realizations of quantum simulators and quantum sensors. They require accurate modeling and characterization of the underlying trapping potentials. We introduce a technique based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Alexander Wolf , Maxim A. Efremov

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

Microwave resonances between discrete macroscopically distinct quantum states with single photon and multiphoton absorption are observed in a strongly driven radio frequency superconducting quantum interference device flux qubit. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Guozhu Sun , Xueda Wen , Yiwen Wang , Shanhua Cong , Jian Chen , Lin Kang , Weiwei Xu , Yang Yu , Siyuan Han , Peiheng Wu

Graphene is a very promising test-bed for the field of electron quantum optics. However, a fully tunable and coherent electronic beam splitter is still missing. We report the demonstration of electronic beam splitters in graphene that…

Generating high-fidelity, tunable entanglement between qubits is crucial for realizing gate-based quantum computation. In superconducting circuits, tunable interactions are often implemented using flux-tunable qubits or coupling elements,…

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 investigate theoretically the behavior of the current oscillations in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as a function of its source bias. Recently, The MZI interference visibility showed an unexplained lobe pattern behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Neder , E. Ginossar

A transition between energy levels at an avoided crossing is known as a Landau-Zener transition. When a two-level system (TLS) is subject to periodic driving with sufficiently large amplitude, a sequence of transitions occurs. The phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-29 S. N. Shevchenko , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

Graphene provides an excellent platform for investigating electron quantum interference due to its outstanding coherent properties. In the quantum Hall regime, Mach--Zehnder (MZ) electronic interferometers are realized using p--n junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Taegeun Song , Nojoon Myoung

We consider dephasing in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer strongly coupled to current noise created by a voltage biased quantum point contact (QPC). We find the visibility of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations as a function voltage bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Often cited dictums in Quantum Mechanics include "observation disturbance causes loss of interference" and "ignorance is interference". In this paper we propose and describe a series of experiments with modified Mach-Zehnder interferometers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 Stefan Ataman