Electron interferometry in quantum Hall regime: Aharonov-Bohm effect of interacting electrons

Details Electron interferometry in quantum Hall regime: Aharonov-Bohm effect of interacting electrons Electron interferometry in quantum Hall regime: Aharonov-Bohm effect of interacting electrons

2009-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0811v2

Phys. Rev. B 80, 125310 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 4 Figs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.125310

An apparent h/fe Aharonov-Bohm flux period, where f is an integer, has been reported in coherent quantum Hall devices. Such sub-period is not expected for non-interacting electrons and thus is thought to result from interelectron Coulomb interaction. Here we report experiments in a Fabry-Perot interferometer comprised of two wide constrictions enclosing an electron island. By carefully tuning the constriction front gates, we find a regime where interference oscillations with period h/2e persist throughout the transition between the integer quantum Hall plateaus 2 and 3, including half-filling. In a large quantum Hall sample, a transition between integer plateaus occurs near half-filling, where the bulk of the sample becomes delocalized and thus dissipative bulk current flows between the counterpropagating edges ("backscattering"). In a quantum Hall constriction, where conductance is due to electron tunneling, a transition between forward- and back-scattering is expected near the half-filling. In our experiment, neither period nor amplitude of the oscillations show a discontinuity at half-filling, indicating that only one interference path exists throughout the transition. We also present experiments and an analysis of the front-gate dependence of the phase of the oscillations. The results point to a single physical mechanism of the observed conductance oscillations: Aharonov-Bohm interference of interacting electrons in quantum Hall regime.

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