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Superperiods in interference of e/3 Laughlin quasiparticles encircling filling 2/5 fractional quantum Hall island

  • Stony Brook University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Abstract

We report experiments in a large, 2.5 μm diameter Fabry-Perot quantum Hall interferometer with two tunneling constrictions. Interference fringes are observed as conductance oscillations as a function of applied magnetic field (the Aharonov-Bohm flux through the electron island) or a global backgate voltage (electronic charge in the island). Depletion is such that in the fractional quantum Hall regime, filling 1/3 current-carrying chiral edge channels pass through constrictions when the island filling is 2/5. The interferometer device is calibrated with fermionic electrons in the integer quantum Hall regime. In the fractional regime, we observe magnetic flux and charge periods 5h/e and 2e, respectively, corresponding to creation of ten e/5 Laughlin quasiparticles in the island. These results agree with our prior report of the superperiods in a much smaller interferometer device. The observed experimental periods are interpreted as imposed by anyonic statistical interaction of fractionally charged quasiparticles.

Original languageEnglish
Article number235301
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume80
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2009

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