Signatures of fractional statistics in noise experiments in quantum Hall fluids.
The elementary excitations of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids are vortices with fractional statistics. Yet, this fundamental prediction has remained an open experimental challenge. Here we show that the cross-current noise in a three-terminal tunneling experiment of a two dimensional electron gas in the FQH regime can be used to detect directly the statistical angle of the excitations of these topological quantum fluids. We show that the noise also reveals signatures of exclusion statistics and of fractional charge. The vortices of Laughlin states should exhibit a bunching effect, while for higher states in the Jain sequences they should exhibit an "antibunching" effect.
Kim
Eun-Ah
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Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA.
Lawler
Michael
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Vishveshwara
Smitha
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Fradkin
Eduardo
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