Thermal Enhancement of Interference Effects in Quantum Point Contacts

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2010-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/1011.4559v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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We study an electron interferometer formed with a quantum point contact and a scanning probe tip in a two-dimensional electron gas. The images giving the conductance as a function of the tip position exhibit fringes spaced by half the Fermi wavelength. For a contact opened at the edges of a quantized conductance plateau, the fringes are enhanced as the temperature T increases and can persist beyond the thermal length l_T. This unusual effect is explained assuming a simplified model: The fringes are mainly given by a contribution which vanishes when T -> 0 and has a decay characterized by a T-independent scale.

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