Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 196803 (2003) [4 pages]Revisiting the Hanbury Brown–Twiss Setup for Fractional StatisticsReceived 12 May 2003; published 7 November 2003 The Hanbury Brown–Twiss experiment has proved to be an effective means of probing statistics of particles. Here, in a setup involving edge-state quasiparticles in a fractional quantum Hall system, we show that a variant of the experiment composed of two sources and two sinks can be used to unearth fractional statistics. We find a clearcut signature of the statistics in the equal-time current-current correlation function for quasiparticle currents emerging from the two sources and collected at the sinks. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.196803
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.196803
PACS:
73.43.Jn, 71.10.Pm
|
|
About | Terms and Conditions | Subscriptions | Search | Help
Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that the user has read and agrees to our Terms and Conditions and any applicable Subscription Agreement. Physical Review®, Physical Review Letters®, Reviews of Modern Physics®, and Physical Review Special Topics® are trademarks of the American Physical Society.