Braids and Beams: Exploring Fractional Statistics with Mesoscopic Anyon Colliders

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Main Authors: Rosenow, Bernd, Halperin, Bertrand I.
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Published: 2025
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author Rosenow, Bernd
Halperin, Bertrand I.
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Halperin, Bertrand I.
contents Anyon colliders -- quantum Hall devices where dilute quasiparticle beams collide at a quantum point contact -- provide an interferometer-free probe of anyonic exchange phases through current cross correlations. Within a non-equilibrium bosonization framework, the normalized cross-correlations take a universal form depending only on the exchange phase and the dynamical exponent, enabling experimental demonstration of anyonic statistics. This result can be interpreted as time-domain interference -- braiding in time rather than spatial exclusion or real-space interferometry. Extension to hierarchical states shows that the semiclassical step-function description of quasiparticles fails at large statistical angles. Introducing a finite soliton width resolves this issue and enables quantitative modeling of charge-$e/5$ quasiparticle collisions.
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spellingShingle Braids and Beams: Exploring Fractional Statistics with Mesoscopic Anyon Colliders
Rosenow, Bernd
Halperin, Bertrand I.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Anyon colliders -- quantum Hall devices where dilute quasiparticle beams collide at a quantum point contact -- provide an interferometer-free probe of anyonic exchange phases through current cross correlations. Within a non-equilibrium bosonization framework, the normalized cross-correlations take a universal form depending only on the exchange phase and the dynamical exponent, enabling experimental demonstration of anyonic statistics. This result can be interpreted as time-domain interference -- braiding in time rather than spatial exclusion or real-space interferometry. Extension to hierarchical states shows that the semiclassical step-function description of quasiparticles fails at large statistical angles. Introducing a finite soliton width resolves this issue and enables quantitative modeling of charge-$e/5$ quasiparticle collisions.
title Braids and Beams: Exploring Fractional Statistics with Mesoscopic Anyon Colliders
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04319