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Revisiting the Hanbury Brown-Twiss set-up for fractional statistics

arXiv:cond-mat/0304568 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.196803

Abstract

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment has proved to be an effective means of probing statistics of particles. Here, in a set-up involving edge-state quasiparticles in a fractional quantum Hall system, we show that a variant of the experiment composed of two sources and two sinks can be used to unearth fractional statistics. We find a clear cut signature of the statistics in the equal-time current-current correlation function for quasiparticle currents emerging from the two sources and collected at the sinks.

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