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Finite bias visibility of the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer

2007/04/30 by Preden Roulleau, P. Roulleau, F. Portier +7 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing #Photonic and Optical Devices #Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.76.161309

published as Phys. Rev. B 76, 161309 (2007) · 4 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2007/10/15 · openalex publication_date 2007/10/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We present an original statistical method to measure the visibility of interferences in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the presence of low frequency fluctuations. The visibility presents a single side lobe structure shown to result from a Gaussian phase averaging whose variance is quadratic with the bias. To reinforce our approach and validate our statistical method, the same experiment is also realized with a stable sample. It exhibits the same visibility behavior as the fluctuating one, indicating the intrinsic character of finite bias phase averaging. In both samples, the dilution of the impinging current reduces the variance of the Gaussian distribution.

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