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Tomer Alkalay

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arXiv2026

Observation of Time-Domain Braiding of Non-Abelian Anyons at $ν= 5/2$ State

Unlike elementary particles, which obey either bosonic or fermionic exchange statistics, certain quasiparticles, known as anyons, are predicted to exhibit Abelian or non-Abelian braiding statistics. While braiding Abelian anyons modifies the wavefunction by a 'statistical phase', braiding non-Abelian anyons implements a unitary transformation of the state within a degenerate subspace of states. Experimental evidence of non-Abelian braiding has thus far remained elusive. Here, we report a 'time-domain braiding' signature of non-Abelian anyons in the $ν= 5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state, by extending our previously demonstrated approach with Abelian anyons at $ν= 1/3$. Our approach is based on measurements of the current fluctuations arising from weak partitioning of a highly dilute one-dimensional edge mode. We independently probe the partition noise of the downstream charged mode and also that of the upstream neutral mode. These independent measurements agree with our theoretical predictions for 'time-domain braiding' of the downstream Abelian and the upstream non-Abelian anyons, respectively, in the 'particle-hole Pfaffian' topological order. Together, these results provide evidence for the presence of non-Abelian anyons.

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arXiv2024

Scaling tunnelling noise in the fractional quantum Hall effect tells about renormalization and breakdown of chiral Luttinger liquid

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect provides a paradigmatic example of a topological phase of matter. FQH edges are theoretically described via models belonging to the class of chiral Luttinger liquid (CLL) theories [1 (Wen, 2007)]. These theories predict exotic properties of the excitations, such as fractional charge and fractional statistics. Despite theoretical confidence in this description and qualitative experimental confirmations, quantitative experimental evidence for CLL behaviour is scarce. In this work, we study tunnelling between edge modes in the quantum Hall regime at the filling factor $ν=1/3$. We present measurements at different system temperatures and perform a novel scaling analysis of the experimental data, originally proposed in Ref. [2 (Schiller et al., 2022)]. Our analysis shows clear evidence of CLL breakdown - above a certain energy scale. In the low-energy regime, where the scaling behaviour holds, we extract the property called the scaling dimension and find it heavily renormalized compared to naïve CLL theory predictions. Our results show that decades-old experiments contain a lot of previously overlooked information that can be used to investigate the physics of quantum Hall edges. In particular, we open a road to quantitative experimental studies of (a) scaling dimension renormalization in quantum point contacts and (b) CLL breakdown mechanisms at an intermediate energy scale, much smaller than the bulk gap.

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arXiv2023

Measuring statistics-induced entanglement entropy with a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer

Despite its ubiquity in quantum computation and quantum information, a universally applicable definition of quantum entanglement remains elusive. The challenge is further accentuated when entanglement is associated with other key themes, e.g., quantum interference and quantum statistics. Here, we introduce two novel motifs that characterize the interplay of entanglement and quantum statistics: an 'entanglement pointer' and a 'statistics-induced entanglement entropy'. The two provide a quantitative description of the statistics-induced entanglement: (i) they are finite only in the presence of quantum entanglement underlined by quantum statistics; (ii) their explicit form depends on the quantum statistics of the particles (e.g., fermions, bosons, anyons). We have experimentally implemented these ideas by employing an electronic Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer fed by two highly diluted electron beams in an integer quantum Hall platform. Performing measurements of auto-correlation and cross-correlation of current fluctuations of the scattered beams (following 'collisions'), we quantify the statistics-induced entanglement by experimentally accessing the entanglement pointer and the statistics-induced entanglement entropy. Our theoretical and experimental approaches pave the way to study entanglement in various correlated platforms, e.g., those involving anyonic Abelian and non-Abelian states.

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arXiv2023

Partitioning of Diluted Anyons Reveals their Braiding Statistics

Correlations of partitioned particles carry essential information about their quantumness. Partitioning full beams of charged particles leads to current fluctuations, with their autocorrelation (namely, shot noise) revealing the particle' charge. This is not the case when the partitioned particle beams are diluted. Bosons or fermions will exhibit particles antibunching (due to their sparsity and discreteness). However, when diluted anyons, such as the quasiparticles in fractional quantum Hall states, are partitioned in a narrow constriction, their autocorrelation reveals an essential aspect of their exchange statistics: their braiding phase. Here, we describe detailed measurements of weak partitioned, highly diluted, one-dimension-like edge modes of the one-third filling fractional quantum Hall state. The measured autocorrelation agrees with our theory of braiding anyons in the time-domain (instead of braiding in space); with a braiding phase 2$θ$=2$π$/3, without any fitting parameters. Our work offers a relatively straightforward and simple method to observe the braiding statistics of other exotic anyonic states, such as non-abelian states, without resorting to complex interference experiments.

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