Session N1: Topological Phases and Quantum Computing
8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Baltimore Convention Center Room: Ballroom IV
Sponsoring Unit:
DCMP
Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.MAR.N1.4
Abstract: N1.00004 : Proposed experiments to probe the non-abelian $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall state
9:48 AM–10:24 AM
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Author:
Ady Stern
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
We propose several experiments to test the non-abelian nature of quasi-particles in the fractional quantum Hall state of $\nu=5/2$. One set of experiments studies interference contribution to back-scattering of current, and is a simplified version of an experiment suggested recently by Das Sarma et al. A second set looks at thermodynamic properties of a closed system. A third set looks at electronic transport in an array of immobile quesi-particles. The first two sets are only weakly sensitive to disorder-induced distribution of localized quasi-particles.
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