Shot noise in an anyonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Abstract
We show how shot noise in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime probes the charge and statistics of quantum Hall quasiparticles. The dependence of the noise on the magnetic flux through the interferometer allows for a simple way to distinguish Abelian from non-Abelian quasiparticle statistics. In the Abelian case, the Fano factor (in units of the electron charge) is always lower than unity. In the non-Abelian case, the maximal Fano factor as a function of the magnetic flux exceeds 1.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- August 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.085333
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0612608
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhRvB..76h5333F
- Keywords:
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- 73.43.Jn;
- 05.40.Ca;
- 73.43.Cd;
- 73.43.Fj;
- Tunneling;
- Noise;
- Theory and modeling;
- Novel experimental methods;
- measurements;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
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