Dissipationless electron transport in photon-dressed nanostructures
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2011-09-02 v2
Abstract
It is shown that the electron coupling to photons in field-dressed nanostructures can result in the ground electron-photon state with a nonzero electric current. Since the current is associated with the ground state, it flows without the Joule heating of the nanostructure and is nondissipative. Such a dissipationless electron transport can be realized in strongly coupled electron-photon systems with the broken time-reversal symmetry - particularly, in quantum rings and chiral nanostructures dressed by circularly polarized photons.
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@article{arxiv.1103.0950,
title = {Dissipationless electron transport in photon-dressed nanostructures},
author = {O. V. Kibis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0950},
year = {2011}
}
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4 pages; 1 figure; published version