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Decoherence and single electron charging in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer

L. V. Litvin, H. -P. Tranitz, W. Wegscheider, C. Strunk

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0607758

Abstract

We investigate the temperature and voltage dependence of the quantum interference in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer using edge channels in the integer quantum-Hall-regime. The amplitude of the interference fringes is significantly smaller than expected from theory; nevertheless the functional dependence of the visibility on temperature and bias voltage agrees very well with theoretical predictions. Superimposed on the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations, a conductance oscillation with six times smaller period is observed. The latter depends only on gate voltage and not on the AB-phase, and may be related to single electron charging.

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