Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-05-31
Nature 466:585-590,2010
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
8 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1038/nature09277
In the quantum Hall effect regime, taking place in a two-dimensional-electron gas under strong magnetic field, currents flow along the edges of the sample. For some particle-hole conjugate states of the fractional regime, e.g., with filling between 1/2 and 1 of the lowest Landau level; early predictions suggested the presence of counter-propagating edge currents in addition to the expected ones. When this did not agree with the measured conductance, it was suggested that disorder and interactions will lead to counterpropagating modes that carry only energy - the so called neutral modes. In addition, a neutral upstream mode (Majorana mode) was also expected for selected wavefunctions proposed for the even denominator filling 5/2. Here we report on the direct observation of counter-propagating neutral modes in fillings 2/3, 3/5 and 5/2. This was done by injecting such modes and allowing them to impinge on a narrow constriction, which partly reflected them, with two main observed effects: (a) A resultant shot noise proportional to the applied voltage on the injecting contact; (b) With simultaneously injecting also a charge mode, the presence of the neutral mode was found to significantly affect the Fano factor and the temperature of the backscattered charge mode. In particular, such observation for filling 5/2, may single out the non-abelian wavefunctions for the state.
bid Aveek
Heiblum Moty
Inoue Hiroyuki
Kane Charles
Mahalu Diana
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