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Litvin, Leonid ; Tranitz, Hans-Peter ; Wegscheider, Werner ; Strunk, Christoph

Decoherence and single electron charging in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Litvin, Leonid, Tranitz, Hans-Peter, Wegscheider, Werner and Strunk, Christoph (2007) Decoherence and single electron charging in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Physical Review B 75 (3), 033315.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 25 Jan 2010 13:44
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.12467


Abstract

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 significantly smaller than expected from theory; nevertheless the functional dependence of the visibility on temperature and bias voltage agrees very well with theoretical ...

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 significantly smaller than expected from theory; nevertheless the functional dependence of the visibility on temperature and bias voltage agrees very well with theoretical predictions. Superimposed on the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations, a conductance oscillation with a six times smaller period is observed. The latter depends only on gate voltage and not on the AB phase, and may be related to single electron charging.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review B
Publisher:AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Place of Publication:COLLEGE PK
Volume:75
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:3
Page Range:033315
Date25 January 2007
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Alumni or Retired Professors > Group Werner Wegscheider
Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Weiss > Group Christoph Strunk
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10.1103/PhysRevB.75.033315DOI
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73.23.Ad, 73.63.NmPACS
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Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
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Created at the University of RegensburgUnknown
Item ID12467

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