Probing the neutral edge modes in transport across a point contact via thermal effects in the Read-Rezayi non-abelian quantum Hall states

Details Probing the neutral edge modes in transport across a point contact via thermal effects in the Read-Rezayi non-abelian quantum Hall states Probing the neutral edge modes in transport across a point contact via thermal effects in the Read-Rezayi non-abelian quantum Hall states

2008-10-20

arxiv.org/abs/0810.3659v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 106403 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.106403

Non-abelian quantum Hall states are characterized by the simultaneous appearance of charge and neutral gapless edge modes, with the structure of the latter being intricately related to the existence of bulk quasi-particle excitations obeying non-abelian statistics. In general, it is hard to probe the neutral modes in charge transport measurements and a thermal transport measurement seems to be inevitable. Here we propose a setup which can get around this problem by having two point contacts in series separated by a distance set by the thermal equilibration length of the charge mode. We show that by using the first point contact as a heating device, the excess charge noise measured at the second point contact carries a non-trivial signature of the presence of the neutral mode hence leading to its indirect detection. We also obtain explicit expressions for the thermal conductance and corresponding Lorentz number for transport across a quantum point contact between two edges held at different temperatures and chemical potentials.

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