Charging energy effects on a single-edge anyon braiding detector

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Authors: Noé Demazure, Flavio Ronetti, Benoît Grémaud, Laurent Raymond, Masayuki Hashisaka, Takeo Kato, Thierry Martin
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Abstract

We investigate the influence of capacitive coupling on the detection of anyon braiding in a single-edge interferometer realized in the fractional quantum Hall regime. In this setup, a quantum point contact bends a single edge into a loop, where tunneling occurs at the open end and is controlled by the QPC voltage. In contrast with previously studied two-edge geometries, the weak backscattering regime is dominated by the first-order perturbative term, allowing quantum transport quantities to factorize into a non-universal prefactor and a braiding-induced contribution that provides direct access to the universal statistical angle $πλ$. While previous analyses neglected edge-to-edge capacitance, we show that capacitive effects, which are known to play a crucial role in mesoscopic capacitors, modify both the current and the current cross-correlations. Using a two-point Green's function formalism augmented by Dyson's equation to include the charging energy, we quantify how the fluctuations of the cross-correlations depend simultaneously on $λ$ and on the capacitance of the loop. Our results indicate that a reliable extraction of the statistical angle requires a parallel measurement of the loop capacitance, which can be implemented via a charged gate coupled to the junction.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum and electron transport phenomena Topological Materials and Phenomena Quantum chaos and dynamical systems

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
30 January 2026
Document type
Preprint