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Detecting Non-Abelian Statistics with an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Fractionally charged quasiparticles in the quantum Hall state with a filling factor nu=5/2 are expected to obey non-Abelian statistics. We demonstrate that their statistics can be probed by transport measurements in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The tunneling current through the interferometer exhibits a characteristic dependence on the magnetic flux and a nonanalytic dependence on the tunneling amplitudes which can be controlled by gate voltages.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.186803

Authors: D. E. Feldman, Alexei Kitaev

Institutions: Brown University, California Institute of Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Language: English

Topic: Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1964069259

FWCI: 5.847

Cites: 27

Cited by: 91

Related to: 10