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  • Electron interferometry using quantum Hall edge channels in semiconductor structures is useful for studying anyonic excitations, but charging effects can complicate results.
  • High-mobility monolayer graphene provides a charge-free alternative for Fabry-Pérot quantum Hall interferometry, allowing for cleaner results.
  • With observed high-visibility Aharonov-Bohm interference and a coherence length of 10 μm at very low temperatures, future experiments in graphene could help explore anyonic excitations more effectively in fractional quantum Hall states.

Article Abstract

Electron interferometry with quantum Hall (QH) edge channels in semiconductor heterostructures can probe and harness the exchange statistics of anyonic excitations. However, the charging effects present in semiconductors often obscure the Aharonov-Bohm interference in QH interferometers and make advanced charge-screening strategies necessary. Here we show that high-mobility monolayer graphene constitutes an alternative material system, not affected by charging effects, for performing Fabry-Pérot QH interferometry in the integer QH regime. In devices equipped with gate-tunable quantum point contacts acting on the edge channels of the zeroth Landau level, we observe-in agreement with theory-high-visibility Aharonov-Bohm interference widely tunable through electrostatic gating or magnetic fields. A coherence length of 10 μm at a temperature of 0.02 K allows us to further achieve coherently coupled double Fabry-Pérot interferometry. In future, QH interferometry with graphene devices may enable investigations of anyonic excitations in fractional QH states.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7610789PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00847-xDOI Listing

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