Anyonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer on a single edge of a two-dimensional electron gas

Navketan Batra, Zezhu Wei, Smitha Vishveshwara, D. E. Feldman

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Abstract

Anyonic Fabry-Pérot and Mach-Zehnder interferometers have been proposed theoretically and implemented experimentally as tools to probe the electric charges and statistics of anyons. The experimentally observed visibility of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations is maximal at a high transmission through an interferometer but simple theoretical expressions for the electric currents and noises are only available at low visibility. We consider an alternative version of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, in which anyons tunnel between copropagating chiral channels on the edges of quantum Hall liquids at the filling factors n/(2n+1). We find simple exact solutions for any transmission at a suitably chosen ratio of the edge-channel lengths. The solutions allow a straightforward interpretation in terms of fractional charges and statistics. Our results also apply to the recently observed quantized plateaus in the fractional Chern insulator MoTe2.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberL241302
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume108
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2023

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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