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    Dynamical resurrection of the visibility in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer

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    We study a single-electron pulse injected into the chiral edge-state of a quantum Hall device and subject to a capacitive Coulomb interaction. We find that the scattered multi-particle state remains unentangled and hence can be created itself by a suitable classical voltage-pulse V(t)V(t). The application of the inverse pulse V(t)-V(-t) corrects for the shake-up due to the interaction and resurrects the original injected wave packet. We suggest an experiment with an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer where the application of such pulses manifests itself in an improved visibility.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
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