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Universal chiral Luttinger liquid behavior in a graphene fractional quantum Hall point contact
Liam A Cohen1, Noah L Samuelson1, Taige Wang2,3
1Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Abstract:
One-dimensional conductors are described by Luttinger liquid theory, which predicts a power-law suppression of the single-electron tunneling density of states at low voltages. The scaling exponent is predicted to be quantized when tunneling into a single isolated chiral edge state of the fractional quantum Hall effect. We report conductance measurements across a point contact linking integer and fractional quantum Hall edge states (at fillings 1 and [Formula: see text], respectively). At weak coupling, we observe the predicted universal quadratic scaling with temperature and voltage. At strong coupling, we demonstrate perfect Andreev reflection of fractionalized quasiparticles at the point contact. We use the strong coupling physics to realize a nearly dissipationless direct current voltage step-up transformer, whose gain arises directly from topological fractionalization of electrical charge.
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