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We calculate the conductance G of a bipolar junction in a graphene nanoribbon, in the high-magnetic field regime where the Hall conductance in the p-doped and n-doped regions is 2e^2/h. In the absence of intervalley scattering, the result…

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The Corbino geometry allows one to investigate the propagation of electric current along a p-n interface in ballistic graphene in the absence of edge states appearing for the familiar Hall-bar geometry. Using the transfer matrix in the…

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One of the unique features of graphene is that the Fermi wavelength of its charge carriers can be tuned electrostatically over a wide range. This allows in principle to tune the transparency of a pn-junction electrostatically, as this…

One of the points at issue with closed-loop-type interferometers is beating in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations. Recent observations suggest the possibility that the beating results from the Berry-phase pickup by the conducting electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-11 Sanghyun Jo , Gyong Luck Khym , Dong-In Chang , Yunchul Chung , Hu-Jong Lee , Kicheon Kang , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

A quantum particle interacting with a thin solenoid and a magnetic flux is described by a five-parameter family of Hamilton operators, obtained via the method of self-adjoint extensions. One of the parameters, the value of the flux,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Dabrowski , P. Stovicek

We study the influence of a magnetic flux tube on the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in a graphene quantum dot. Without magnetic flux tube, the graphene pseudospin is responsible for a quantization of the total angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Julia Heinl , Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer

We study the effect of weak disorder on tunneling conductance of a single-channel quantum ring threaded by magnetic flux. We assume that temperature is higher than the level spacing in the ring and smaller than the Fermi energy. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 P. M. Shmakov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

The physics in flat bands has emerged as an essential field in condensed matter physics where a plethora of phenomena can be unveiled, such as anomalous transport properties, superconductivity dominated by quantum geometry or exotic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Biplab Pal , Maxime Thumin , Georges Bouzerar

The experimental realization of a coupled spin pair has been reported by Heiko Webber et.al and its theoretical description has been previously discussed including the condition that local magnetization of the junction is required for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Juan David Vasquez Jaramillo , Erik Sjoqvist , Jonas Fransson

Veselago lens focusing in graphene p-n junction is promising for realizations of new generation electron optics devices. However, the effect of the strain-induced Aharonov-Bohm interference in a p-n junction has not been discussed before.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Sanjay Prabhakar , Rabindra Nepal , Roderick Melnik , Alexey A. Kovalev

We study the spin-dependent transport of spin-1/2 electrons through an interferometer made of two elongated quantum dots or quantum nanowires, which are subject to both an Aharonov-Bohm flux and (Rashba and Dresselhaus) spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Shlomi Matityahu , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Seigo Tarucha

In the Landau problem on the two-dimensional plane, magnetic translation of a quantum wave can be induced by an in-plane electric field. The geometric phase accompanying such magnetic translation around a closed path differs from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 J. Chee , W. Lu

Electro-static potentials for samples with the topology of a ring and penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm flux are discussed. The sensitivity of the electron-density distribution to small variations in the flux generates an effective…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Buttiker

A monolayer of graphene irradiated with circularly polarized light suggests a unique platform for surface electromagnetic wave (plasmon-polariton) manipulation. In fact, the time periodicity of the Hamiltonian leads to a geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-19 Dmitry Yudin , Olle Eriksson , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We numerically calculate the magnetization by applying the magnetic field ($B$) perpendicular to two-dimensional corbino disk system without electron spin. We obtain that the period of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations of magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Katsumi Itahashi , Keita Kishigi , Yasumasa Hasegawa

We investigate a polyacetylene ring in an axially symmetric, static electric field with a modified SSH Hamiltonian of a polyacetylene chain. An effective gauge potential of the single electron Hamiltonian due to spin-field interaction is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhijian Li , J. Q. Liang , F. -C. Pu

We find a fine structure in the Aharonov-Bohm effect, characterized by the appearence of a new type of periodic oscillations having smaller fractional period and an amplitude, which may compare with the amplitude of the conventional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. V. Kusmartsev , Minoru Takahashi

The scattering of electrons with inhomogeneities produces modulations in the local density of states of a metal. We show that electron interference contributions to these modulations are affected by the magnetic field via the Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Cano , I. Paul

A voltage bias applied to a conductor induces a change of the current noise with respect to the equilibrium noise known as excess noise. We analyze the excess noise of the electronic current flowing through a mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Fabrizio Dolcini , Hermann Grabert

Quantum interference in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring structure provides additional control of spin at mesoscopic scale. We propose a scheme for spin filter by studying the coherent transport through the AB structure with lateral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Wu , J. Zhou , Q. W. Shi