Parsa Bonderson, Alexei Kitaev, Kirill Shtengel
Published 2005-08-25, updated 2006-02-04Version 3
In this letter we propose an interferometric experiment to detect non-Abelian quasiparticle statistics -- one of the hallmark characteristics of the Moore-Read state expected to describe the observed FQHE plateau at nu=5/2. The implications for using this state for constructing a topologically protected qubit as has been recently proposed by Das Sarma et. al. are also addressed.
Comments: 5 pages, 2 eps figures v2: A few minor changes and citation corrections. In particular, the connection to cond-mat/9711087 has been clarified. v3: Minor changes: fixed references to Fig. 2, updated citations, changed a few words to conform to the version published in PRL
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016803 (2006)
The Fractional Quantum Hall state at nu=5/2 and the Moore-Read Pfaffian
Unraveling the spin polarization of the v = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state
Fractional Quantum Hall State at Filling Factor $ν=1/4$ in Ultra-High-Quality GaAs 2D Hole Systems
