Magnetic-field-tuned aharonov-bohm oscillations and evidence for non-abelian anyons at ν=5/2

R. L. Willett, C. Nayak, K. Shtengel, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West

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Abstract

We show that the resistance of the ν=5/2 quantum Hall state, confined to an interferometer, oscillates with the magnetic field consistent with an Ising-type non-Abelian state. In three quantum Hall interferometers of different sizes, resistance oscillations at ν=7/3 and integer filling factors have the magnetic field period expected if the number of quasiparticles contained within the interferometer changes so as to keep the area and the total charge within the interferometer constant. Under these conditions, an Abelian state such as the (3, 3, 1) state would show oscillations with the same period as at an integer quantum Hall state. However, in an Ising-type non-Abelian state there would be a rapid oscillation associated with the "even-odd effect" and a slower one associated with the accumulated Abelian phase due to both the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the Abelian part of the quasiparticle braiding statistics. Our measurements at ν=5/2 are consistent with the latter.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number186401
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume111
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 28 2013
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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