American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 24(93), 2004
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.246804
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The low temperature magnetoconductance of a large array of quantum coherentloops exhibits Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak oscillations which periodicitycorresponds to 1/2 flux quantum per loop.We show that the measurement of the harmonics content in a square networkprovides an accurate way to determine the electron phase coherence length$L\_{ϕ}$ in units of the lattice length without any adjustableparameters.We use this method to determine $L\_{ϕ}$ in a network realised from a 2Delectron gas (2DEG) in a GaAS/GaAlAs heterojunction. The temperaturedependence follows a power law $T^{-1/3}$ from 1.3 K to 25 mK with nosaturation, as expected for 1D diffusive electronic motion andelectron-electron scattering as the main decoherence mechanism. ; Comment: Additional experimental data in version 2