arXiv · 1204.2129
Hanbury-Brown and Twiss interference of anyons
Abstract
We present a study of an Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometer realized with anyons. Such a device can directly probe entanglement and fractional statistics of initially uncorrelated particles. We calculate HBT cross-correlations of Abelian Laughlin anyons. The correlations we calculate exhibit partial bunching similar to bosons, indicating a substantial statistical transmuta- tion from the underlying electronic degrees of freedom. We also find qualitative differences between the anyonic signal and the corresponding bosonic or fermionic signals, indicating that anyons cannot be simply thought as intermediate between bosons and fermions.
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Gabriele Campagnano, Oded Zilberberg, Igor V. Gornyi, Dmitri E. Feldman, Andrew C. Potter, Yuval Gefen. 2012-08-20. Hanbury-Brown and Twiss interference of anyons. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.106802
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