Influence of Coulomb interaction on the Aharonov-Bohm effect in an electronic Fabry-Perot interferometer

Stephane Ngo Dinh, Dmitry A. Bagrets

Published 2011-06-22Version 1

We study the role of Coulomb interaction in an electronic Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) realized with chiral edge states in the integer quantum Hall regime in the limit of weak backscattering. Assuming that a compressible Coulomb island in a bulk region of the FPI is formed, we develop a capacitance model which explains the plethora of experimental data on the flux and gate periodicity of conductance oscillations. It is also shown that a suppression of finite-bias visibility stems from a combination of weak Coulomb blockade and a nonequilibrium dephasing by the quantum shot noise.