ArXiv · 2026
Co-propagating chiral Majorana edge modes are predicted to exist in proximity-coupled quantum anomalous Hall systems. They combine the exciting prospects of edge vortices as flying non-Abelian Ising anyons, with their fully electrical detection through anyon fusion processes. In this setup, electrical transport arises from the interference of a pair of Majorana edge states. By bosonizing the model with an additional replica sector, we generalize previous treatments to fully asymmetric configurations. We analyze a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and show that while the DC conductance does not exhibit signatures of edge-vortex interference, at low frequencies, this interference manifests as an effective capacitance. This quantity is sensitive to the non-Abelian anyon statistics of edge vortices and, in particular, carries signatures of their topological spin and nontrivial conformal dimension. We demonstrate that the thermal length l_T = ℏ v/(π k_B T) is the relevant scale at low temperatures T, analogous to quasiparticle transport in conventional quantum Hall edge states with velocity v. As long as the interferometer arm lengths match within this length scale, transport signatures of the non-Abelian statistics of edge vortices remain visible.
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