Department of Condensed Matter

Quantum Electronic Phenomena

  Title: Professor
  Tel: +972-8-934-2502
  Fax: +972-8-934-4477
  Building: Weissman
  Room: L20
  Email: adiel.stern@weizmann.ac.il
Adi Stern

 Research Interests:

 Selected Publications:

Non-abelian states of matter - invited reviews

  1. Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation.
    C. Nayak, S. H. Simon, Ady Stern, M. Freedman and S. Das Sarma, Rev. Mod. Phys., 80, 1083-1159, (2008).
  2. Anyons and the quantum Hall effect - A pedagogical review.
    Ady Stern, Ann. Phys., 323,204-249, (2008).
  3. Non-Abelian states of matter.
    Ady Stern, Nature, 464, 187-193, (2010).

Non-abelian quantum Hall states

  1. Geometric phases and quantum entanglement as building blocks for nonabelian quasi-particle statistics.
    Ady Stern, F. von Oppen and E. Mariani. Phys. Rev. B 70, 205338 (2004).
  2. Coulomb blockade as a probe for non-Abelian statistics in Read-Rezayi states.
    R. Ilan, E. Grosfeld and Ady Stern, Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 086803 (2008).
  3. Observation of a quarter of an electron charge at the ν=5/2 quantum Hall state.
    M. Dolev, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, Ady Stern and D. Mahalu, Nature, 452, 829, (2008).

Quantum Hall interferometry

  1. Proposed Experiments to Probe the Non-Abelian ν= 5/2 Quantum Hall State.
    Ady Stern and B. I. Halperin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016802 (2006).
  2. Shot noise in an anyonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
    D. E. Feldman, Y. Gefen, A. Kitaev, K. T. Lee and Ady Stern, Phys. Rev. B, 76, 085333 (2007).
  3. Theory of the Fabry-Perot quantum Hall interferometer.
    B. I. Halperin, Ady Stern, I. Neder and B. Rosenow, Phys. Rev. B 83 155440 (2011).

Edge Anyons and Fractional Topological Insulators

  1. Fractional Topological Insulators.
    M. Levin and Ady Stern, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 196803, (2009).   [PDF]
  2. Exactly soluble models for fractional topological insulators in 2 and 3 dimensions.
    M. Levin, F. J. Burnell, M. Koch-Janusz and Ady Stern, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235145 (2011).
  3. Fractionalizing Majorana Fermions: Non-Abelian Statistics on the Edges of Abelian Quantum Hall States.
    N. Lindner, E. Berg, G. Refael and Ady Stern, Phys. Rev. X 2, 041002 (2012).  [PDF]

Majorana fermions

  1. Majorana fermions on a disordered triangular lattice.
    Kraus, Yaacov E; Stern Ady, New Journal of Physics, 13, 105006, 2011.  [PDF]
  2. Adiabatic manipulations of Majorana fermions in a three-dimensional network of quantum wires.
    B. I. Halperin, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern, et al., Phys. Rev. B 85, 144501 (2012).  [PDF]
  3. Observing Majorana bound states of Josephson vortices in topological superconductors.
    E. Grosfeld and Ady Stern, Proc. Nat. Acad. Scie. 108, 11810 (2011).  [PDF]

Topological insulators

  1. Strong side of weak topological insulators.
    Ringel, Zohar; Kraus, Yaacov E.; Stern Ady, Physical Review B, 86, 045102, 2012.  [PDF]
  2. Magnetic instability on the surface of topological insulators.
    Baum Yuval, Stern Ady, Phys. Rev. B, 85, 121105, 2012.  [PDF]
  3. Spin orbit effects in a GaAs quantum dot in a parallel magnetic field.
    B.I. Halperin, Ady Stern, Y. Oreg, J.H. Cremers, J. Folk, C.M. Marcus (Harvard, Weizmann), Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (10): 21062109 (2001).

Bi-layers and Coulomb drag

  1. Mesoscopic fluctuations of the Coulomb drag at ν=1/2.
    B. N. Narozhny, I. L. Aleiner, Ady Stern, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86: 3610-3613 (2001).
  2. Theory of interlayer tunneling in bi-layer quantum Hall ferromagnets.
    Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute), S.M. Girvin (Indiana University), A.H. MacDonald (Indiana University), Ning Ma (Indiana University), Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (9): 1829-1832 (2001).
  3. Coulomb Drag between Quantum Wires.
    Rochus Klesse, Ady Stern, Phys. Rev. B 62 (24): 16912-16925 (2000).
  4. Coulomb drag in compressible quantum Hall states.
    Iddo Ussishkin and Ady Stern. Phys. Rev. B 56: 4013 (1997). [abstract]   [postscript]
  5. Dissipationless transport in low density bilayer systems.
    Ady Stern, S. Das Sarma, Matthew P. A. Fisher, S. M. Girvin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (1): 139-142 (2000). [abstract]   [postscript]
  6. Coulomb drag at ν = 1/2: Composite fermion pairing fluctuations.
    Iddo Ussishkin and Ady Stern, Physical Review Letters 81 (18): 3932-3935 (1998). [abstract]   [postscript]

Striped phases in the quantum Hall regime

  1. Striped quantum Hall phases.
    Felix von Oppen, Bertrand I. Halperin, Ady Stern, Advances in Quantum Many-Body Theory, vol. 3, ed. R.F. Bishop, N.R. Walet, and Y. Xian (World Scientific 2000).
  2. Conductivity tensor of striped quantum Hall phases.
    Felix von Oppen (Cologne), Bertrand I. Halperin (Harvard), Ady Stern (Weizmann), Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (13): 2937-2940 (2000).

Composite fermion theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect

  1. The half-filled Landau level - composite fermions and dipoles.
    Felix von Oppen, Bertrand I. Halperin, Steven H. Simon, Ady Stern [abstract]   [postscript]
  2. The Physical Significance of Singularities in the Chern-Simons Fermi Liquid Description of a Partially Filled Landau Level.
    Ady Stern and Bertrand I. Halperin. Surface Science 361: 42 (1996). [abstract]   [postscript]
  3. Singularities in the Fermi liquid description of a partially filled Landau level and the energy gaps of fractional quantum Hall states.
    Ady Stern and Bertrand I. Halperin. Physical Review B 52: 5890 (1995). [abstract]   [postscript]
  4. Quantum Hall Fluid of Vortices in a Two Dimensional Array of Josephson Junctions.
    Ady Stern. Phys. Rev. B 50: 10092 (1994). [abstract]   [postscript]
  5. Compressibility of a quantum Hall system at $ν = 1/2$.
    Bertrand I. Halperin and Ady Stern, Physical Review Letters 80: 5457 (1998). [abstract]   [postscript]
  6. Composite Fermions in Modulated Structures: Transport and Surface Acoustic Waves.
    Felix von Oppen, Ady Stern and Bertrand I. Halperin, Physical Review Letters 80: 4494 (1998). [abstract]   [postscript]

Others

  1. Quantum limitations on superluminal propagation.
    Yakir Aharonov, Benni Reznik and Ady Stern, Physical Review Letters 81 (11): 2190-2193 (1998). [abstract]   [postscript]