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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

Determination of properties of quasiparticle excitations is an important task in the experimental investigation of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE). We propose a model-independent method for finding the scaling dimension of FQHE…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-02 Kyrylo Snizhko , Vadim Cheianov

The thermal Hall conductance $K$ of the fractional quantum Hall state at filling fraction $\nu=5/2$ has recently been measured to be $K=2.5 \pi^2k_B^2T/3h$ [M. Banerjee et al., Nature ${\bf 559}$, 205 (2018)]. The half-integer value of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-11 Hamed Asasi , Michael Mulligan

We experimentally study electron transport between edge states in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime. We find an anomalous increase of the transport across the 2/3 incompressible fractional stripe in comparison with theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Deviatov , V. T. Dolgopolov , A. Lorke , W. Wegscheider , A. D. Wieck

The Moore-Read Pfaffian $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall state is a p-wave super-conductor of composite fermions. Small deviations from $\nu=5/2$ result in the formation of an array of vortices within this super-conductor, each supporting a Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-30 Eytan Grosfeld , Ady Stern

Charge excitations in a two dimensional electron gas, under a quantizing magnetic field and in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime, flow in one dimensional-like strips along the edges of the sample. These excitations (quasiparticles)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-25 Moty Heiblum

We analyze charge-$e/4$ quasiparticle tunneling between the edges of a point contact in a non-Abelian model of the $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall state. We map this problem to resonant tunneling between attractive Luttinger liquids and use the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adrian Feiguin , Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

We further develop an approach to identify the braiding statistics associated to a given fractional quantum Hall state through adiabatic transport of quasiparticles. This approach is based on the notion of adiabatic continuity between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 John Flavin , Alexander Seidel

We report experiments on temperature and Hall voltage bias dependence of the superperiodic conductance oscillations in the novel Laughlin quasiparticle interferometer, where quasiparticles of the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall fluid execute a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. E. Camino , W. Zhou , V. J. Goldman

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…

Topological states of matter are characterized by topological invariant, which are physical quantities whose values are quantized and do not depend on details of the measured system. Of these, the easiest to probe in experiments is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Dima E. Feldman , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern

Quasi-particles in fractional quantum Hall states are collective excitations that carry fractional charge and anyonic statistics. While the fractional charge affects semi-classical characteristics such as shot noise and charging energies,…

We show in this paper that thermopower is enhanced in non-Abelian quantum Hall liquids under appropriate conditions. This is because thermopower measures entropy per electron in the clean limit, while the degeneracy and entropy associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-12 Kun Yang , Bertrand I. Halperin

It is shown, with the help of exact diagonalization studies on systems with up to sixteen electrons, in the presence of up to two delta function impurities, that the Pfaffian model is inadequate for the actual quasiholes and quasiparticles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Csaba Toke , Nicolas Regnault , Jainendra K. Jain

Recent pioneering works have set the stage for exploring anyon braiding statistics from negative current cross-correlations along two intersecting quasiparticle beams. In such a dual-source - analyzer quantum point contact setup, also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 P. Glidic , O. Maillet , A. Aassime , C. Piquard , A. Cavanna , U. Gennser , Y. Jin , A. Anthore , F. Pierre

The spatial distribution of the incompressible edge states (IES) is obtained for a geometry which is topologically equivalent to an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, taking into account the electron-electron interactions within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Siddiki , A. E. Kavruk , T. Ozturk , U. Atav M. Sahin , T. Hakioglu

We review the construction of a low-energy effective field theory and its state space for "abelian" quantum Hall fluids. The scaling limit of the incompressible fluid is described by a Chern-Simons theory in 2+1 dimensions on a manifold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Samuel Bieri , Juerg Froehlich

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

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect at the filling factor $\nu=5/2$ was discovered in GaAs heterostructures more than 35 years ago. Various topological orders have been proposed as possible candidates to describe this FQH state. Some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Ken K. W. Ma , Michael R. Peterson , V. W. Scarola , Kun Yang

Anyon colliders -- quantum Hall devices where dilute quasiparticle beams collide at a quantum point contact -- provide an interferometer-free probe of anyonic exchange phases through current cross correlations. Within a non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Bernd Rosenow , Bertrand I. Halperin