• 文献标题:   Aharonov-Bohm effect in graphene-based Fabry-Perot quantum Hall interferometers
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   RONEN Y, WERKMEISTER T, NAJAFABADI DH, PIERCE AT, ANDERSON LE, SHIN YJ, LEE SY, LEE YH, JOHNSON B, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, YACOBY A, KIM P
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   1748-3387 EI 1748-3395
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  • 被引频次:   25
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41565-021-00861-z EA FEB 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Interferometers probe the wave-nature and exchange statistics of indistinguishable particles-for example, electrons in the chiral one-dimensional edge channels of the quantum Hall effect (QHE). Quantum point contacts can split and recombine these channels, enabling interference of charged particles. Such quantum Hall interferometers (QHIs) can unveil the exchange statistics of anyonic quasi-particles in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE). Here, we present a fabrication technique for QHIs in van der Waals (vdW) materials and realize a tunable, graphene-based Fabry-Perot (FP) QHI. The graphite-encapsulated architecture allows observation of FQHE at a magnetic field of 3T and precise partitioning of integer and fractional edge modes. We measure pure Aharonov-Bohm interference in the integer QHE, a major technical challenge in small FP interferometers, and find that edge modes exhibit high-visibility interference due to large velocities. Our results establish vdW heterostructures as a versatile alternative to GaAs-based interferometers for future experiments targeting anyonic quasi-particles. Interferometers can probe the wave-nature and exchange statistics of indistinguishable particles. Quantum Hall interferometers from graphite-encapsulated graphene heterostructures now enable the observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect and of robust fractional quantum Hall states.