{
  "id": "1111.4581",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2011-11-19T21:10:47.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-05-24T13:31:09.000Z",
  "title": "Noninvasive Probe of Charge Fractionalization in Quantum Spin-Hall Insulators",
  "authors": [
    "Ion Garate",
    "Karyn Le Hur"
  ],
  "comment": "Revised and extended version. To appear in PRB",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 85, 195465 (2012)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.85.195465",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.str-el"
  ],
  "abstract": "When an electron with well-defined momentum tunnels into a nonchiral Luttinger liquid, it breaks up into two separate wave packets that carry fractional charges and move in opposite directions. A direct observation of this phenomenon has proven elusive, mainly due to single-particle and plasmon backscattering caused by measurement probes. This paper theoretically introduces two topological insulator devices that are naturally suited for detecting fractional charges and their velocities directly and in a noninvasive fashion.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2012-05-24T13:31:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum spin-hall insulators",
      "charge fractionalization",
      "noninvasive probe",
      "carry fractional charges",
      "separate wave packets"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2011arXiv1111.4581G"
    }
  }
}