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We report measurements of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in normal metal rings in the presence of high frequency electromagnetic fields. The power dependence of the decoherence time scale tau_phi(P) agrees well with the anticipated power law…
Recently, a static gravitational field, such as that of the Earth, was proposed as a new source of decoherence [1]. We study the conditions under which it becomes the dominant decoherence effect in typical interferometric experiments. The…
We develop a novel eikonal expansion for the Cooperon to study the effect of space- and time-dependent electric fields on the dephasing rate of disordered conductors. For randomly fluctuating fields with arbitrary covariance we derive a…
The low-lying spectrum of a 3-electron narrow ring has been analyzed analytically. A phase-diagram for the ground state band against the magnetic field and the radius of the ring is obtained. The symmetry background of the fractional…
We study the effects of field modulation on the energy spectrum of an electron in a two-dimensional bipartite periodic lattice subject to a magnetic field. Dependence of the energy spectrum on both the period and the strength of field…
In order to investigate the effect of electronic phase coherence on screening we have measured the flux dependent polarizability of isolated mesoscopic rings at 350 MHz. At low temperature (below 100 mK) both non-dissipative and dissipative…
A theoretical analysis of the excitation of an infinitely long solenoid by oscillating current has revealed the existence of specific potentials in the space outside the solenoid, which can affect electron diffraction in an experiment…
The shape of an electronic droplet in the quantum Hall effect is sensitive to gradients of the magnetic field, even if they are placed outside the droplet. Magnetic impurities cause a fingering instability of the edge of the droplet,…
A novel version of the electric Aharonov-Bohm effect is proposed where the quantum system which picks up the Aharonov-Bohm phase is confined to a Faraday cage with a time varying, spatially uniform scalar potential. The electric and…
Recent works showed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase difference for a quantum charged particle can be written in terms of electric and magnetic fluxes in a spacetime surface whose boundaries are the possible particle worldlines in the…
We consider the influence of an external periodic potential on the fractional quantum Hall effect of two-dimensional interacting electron systems. For many electrons on a torus, we find that the splitting of incompressible ground state…
We consider clean cylindrical nanostructures with an applied longitudinal static magnetic field. Without Coulomb interaction, the field induces, for particular values, points of degeneracy where a change of ground state takes place due to…
We demonstrate real-time detection of self-interfering electrons in a double quantum dot embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, with visibility approaching unity. We use a quantum point contact as a charge detector to perform…
We study the effect of an electric charge in the middle of a ring of electrons in a magnetic field such as $\nu = 1/2$. In the absence of the central charge, a residual current should appear due to an Aharanov-Bohm effect. As the charge…
We consider the weak localization in a ring connected to reservoirs through leads of finite length and submitted to a magnetic field. The effect of decoherence due to electron-electron interaction on the harmonics of AAS oscillations is…
In a standard interferometry experiment, one measures the phase difference between two paths by recombining the two wave packets on a beam-splitter. However, it has been recently recognized that the phase can also be estimated via local…
Signature of phase coherence on the electric and magnetic response of non connected Aharonov-Bohm rings is measured by a resonant method at 350 MHz between 20 mK and 500 mK. The rings are etched in a GaAs-AlGaAs heterojunction. Both…
The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that demonstrates how potentials can have observable effects even when the classical fields associated with those potentials are absent. Initially proposed for electromagnetic…
The electric Aharonov-Bohm effect -- a time-dependent scalar potential imparting a measurable phase shift on electrons in a region free of electromagnetic fields -- has never been experimentally tested in its original formulation with…
Open system dynamics of an electron is studied in the presence of radiation field, confined between two parallel conducting pates. It has been suggested in previous works that the quantized zero-point modes of this field lead to finite…