Impact of Channel Mixing on the Visibility of Two-particle Interferometry in Quantum Hall Edge States

Abstract

We consider a two-particle interferometer, where voltage sources applied to ohmic contacts inject electronic excitations into a pair of copropagating edge channels. We analyze the impact of channel mixing due to inter-edge tunneling on the current noise measured at the output of the interferometer. Due to this mixing, the noise suppression typically expected for synchronized injecting sources is incomplete, thereby reducing the visibility of the interference. We investigate to which extent the impact of mixing on the noise visibility depends on different shapes of the voltage drives. Furthermore, we compare a simple model involving a single mixing point between the sources and the quantum point contact to the more realistic case of a continuous distribution of weak mixing points.