Universality of Bias- and Temperature-induced Dephasing in Ballistic Electronic Interferometers

TL;DR

This study demonstrates a universal behavior in ballistic electronic interferometers, showing that bias and temperature effects on dephasing are size-dependent and consistent across different interferometer types, including Aharonov-Bohm and Fabry-Perot devices.

Contribution

It reveals a universal dephasing behavior in ballistic interferometers, linking size-dependent energy scales to bias and temperature effects across different device geometries.

Findings

Interference signal reverses at a specific bias voltage.

Visibility decays exponentially with temperature.

Dephasing energy scales depend mainly on interferometer size.

Abstract

We performed a transport measurement in a ballistic Aharonov-Bohm ring and a Fabry-Perot type interferometer. In both cases we found that the interference signal is reversed at a certain bias voltage and that the visibility decays exponentially as a function of temperature, being in a strong analogy with recent reports on the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers. By analyzing the data including those in the previous works, the energy scales that characterize the dephasing are found to be dominantly dependent on the interferometer size, implying the presence of a universal behavior in ballistic interferometers in both linear and non-linear transport regimes.