Transmission and reflection of charge density waves in a quantum Hall edge controlled by a metal gate

Abstract

Quantum energy teleportation (QET) is a proposed protocol related to the quantum vacuum. The edge channels in a quantum Hall system is well suited for the experimental verification of QET. For this purpose, we examine a charge density wave excited and detected by capacitively coupled front gate electrodes. We observe the waveform of the charge density wave, which is proportional to the time derivative of the applied square voltage wave. Further, we study the transmission and reflection behaviors of the charge density wave by applying a voltage to another front gate electrode to control the path of the edge state. We show that the threshold voltages where the dominant direction is switched in either transmission or reflection for dense and sparse waves are different from the threshold voltage where the current stops flowing in an equilibrium state.