Charge Detection in a Closed-Loop Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer

Details Charge Detection in a Closed-Loop Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer Charge Detection in a Closed-Loop Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer

2006-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606117v2

Phys.Rev. B74 (2006) 153309

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages with 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.153309

We report on a study of complementarity in a two-terminal "closed-loop" Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. In this interferometer, the simple picture of two-path interference cannot be applied. We introduce a nearby quantum point contact to detect the electron in a quantum dot inserted in the interferometer. We found that charge detection reduces but does not completely suppress the interference even in the limit of perfect detection. We attribute this phenomenon to the unique nature of the closed-loop interferometer. That is, the closed-loop interferometer cannot be simply regarded as a two-path interferometer because of multiple reflections of electrons. As a result, there exist indistinguishable paths of the electron in the interferometer and the interference survives even in the limit of perfect charge detection. This implies that charge detection is not equivalent to path detection in a closed-loop interferometer. We also discuss the phase rigidity of the transmission probability for a two-terminal conductor in the presence of a detector.

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