Dephasing of an Electronic Two-Path Interferometer
arXiv:1602.01586 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.121412
Abstract
This work was motivated by the quest for observing interference of fractionally charged quasi particles. Here, we study the behavior of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) at the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) regime at filling factors greater than one. Both the visibility and the drift velocity were measured, and were found to be highly correlated as function of filling factor. As the filling factor approached unity, the visibility quenched, not to recover for filling factors smaller than unity. Alternatively, the velocity saturated around a minimal value at unity filling factor. We highlight the significant role interactions between the interfering edge and the bulk play, as well as that of the defining potential at the edge. Shot noise measurements suggest that phase-averaging (due to phase randomization), rather than single particle decoherence, is likely to be the cause of the dephasing in the fractional regime.
14 pages, 4 figures
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