Probing Non-Abelian Statistics with Quasiparticle Interferometry

Journal Article · Fri Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.016401· OSTI ID:20777384

Bonderson, Parsa ^[1]; Shtengel, Kirill ^[2]; Slingerland, J K ^[3]

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1. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (United States)
3. Microsoft Research, Station Q, Kohn Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)

We examine interferometric experiments in systems that exhibit non-Abelian braiding statistics, expressing outcomes in terms of the modular S-matrix. In particular, this result applies to fractional quantum Hall interferometry, and we give a detailed treatment of the Read-Rezayi states, providing explicit predictions for the recently observed {nu}=12/5 plateau.

• OSTI ID: 20777384
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.016401; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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