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Noise-Induced Phase Transition in the Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 103, no. 3
Publication date2009
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We consider dephasing in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer strongly coupled to current noise created by a voltage biased quantum point contact (QPC). We find the visibility of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations as a function of voltage bias and express it via the cumulant generating function of noise. In the large-bias regime, high-order cumulants of current add up to cancel the dilution effect of a QPC. This leads to an abrupt change in the dependence of the visibility on voltage bias which occurs at the QPC's transparency T=1/2. Quantum fluctuations in the vicinity of this point smear out the sharp transition.

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LEVKIVSKYI, Ivan, SUKHORUKOV, Eugene. Noise-Induced Phase Transition in the Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. In: Physical review letters, 2009, vol. 103, n° 3. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.036801
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