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The effect of electron-electron interaction on the electronic structure of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) graphene quantum rings (GQRs) is explored theoretically using the single-band tight-binding Hamiltonian and the mean-field Hubbard model. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Farghadan , A. Saffarzadeh , E. Heidari Semiromi

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are studied in the magnetoconductance of a micron-sized open quantum ring coupled capacitively to a Coulomb-blockaded quantum dot. As the plunger gate of the dot is modulated and tuned through a conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Meier , A. Fuhrer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

We report a numerical study on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect and giant magnetoresistance in rectangular rings made of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). We show that in low energy regime where only the first subband of contact GNRs contributes to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-05 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Yann-Michel Niquet , Philippe Dollfus

Multi-terminal Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings are ideal building blocks for quantum networks (QNs) thanks to their ability to map input states into controlled coherent superpositions of output states. We report on experiments performed on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 E. Strambini , V. Piazza , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , F. Beltram

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations are studied for a parallel coupled vertical double quantum dot with a common source and drain electrode. We observe AB oscillations of current via a one-electron bonding state as the ground state and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 T. Hatano , T. Kubo , Y. Tokura , S. Amaha , S. Teraoka , S. Tarucha

We investigate the magnetoresistance of a side-gated ring structure etched out of single-layer graphene. We observe Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with about 5% visibility. We are able to change the relative phases of the wave functions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Magdalena Huefner , Françoise Molitor , Arnhild Jacobsen , Alessandro Pioda , Christoph Stampfer , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

We study the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in two-dimensional mesoscopic frame in hole systems. We show that differing from the AB effect in electron systems, due to the presence of both the heavy hole and the light hole, the conductances not…

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

We study the amplitude of mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) diffusive rings. We consider first the low-temperature limit of a fully coherent sample. The variance of oscillation harmonics is calculated as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Ludwig , A. D. Mirlin

We analyse the conductance of the Aharonov-Bohm one-dimensional quantum ring touching a quantum wire. It is shown that in accordance with experimental data the period of the AB oscillations strongly depends on the chemical potential and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. A. Shelykh , N. G. Galkin , N. T. Bagraev

A detailed description of the tunneling processes within Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings containing two-dimensional quantum dots is presented. We show that the electronic propagation through the interferometer is controlled by the spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Moldoveanu , M. Ţolea , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

This work presents theoretical demonstration of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in monolayer phosphorene nanorings (PNR). Atomistic quantum transport simulations of PNR are employed to investigate the impact of multiple modulation sources on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Rui Zhang , Zhenhua Wu , Xiaojing Li , Kai Chang

We present an electron interferometer defined purely by electrostatic gating in encapsulated bilayer graphene. This minimizes possible sample degradation introduced by conventional etching methods when preparing quantum devices. The device…

Phase-coherent acoustoelectric transport is reported.Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the acoustoelectric current with visibility exceeding 100% were observed in mesoscopic GaAs rings as a function of an external magnetic field at cryogenic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 E. Strambini , E. Ligarò , F. Beltram , H. Beere , C. A. Nicoll , D. A. Ritchie , V. Piazza

We present an analysis of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations for a mesoscopic ring with a quantum dot inserted in one of its arms. It is shown that microreversibility demands that the phase of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations changes {\it…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Levy Yeyati , M. Buttiker

We define two laterally gated small quantum dots (~ 15 electrons) in an Aharonov-Bohm geometry in which the coupling between the two dots can be broadly changed. For weakly coupled quantum dots we find Aharonov-Bohm oscillations. In an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Holleitner , C. R. Decker , K. Eberl , R. H. Blick

We use spin-density-functional theory within an envelope function approach to calculate electronic states in a GaAs/InAs core-shell nanowire pierced by an axial magnetic field. Our fully 3D quantum modeling includes explicitly the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Miquel Royo , Carlos Segarra , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Josep Planelles

We investigate spin-dependent conductance through a quantum Aharonov-Bohm ring containing localized electrons which interact with the propagating flow of electrons via exchange interaction of the ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic type. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 I. G. Savenko , R. G. Polozkov , I. A. Shelykh

We report experiments on a quantum electron interferometer fabricated from high mobility, low density GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure material. In this device, a nearly circular electron island is defined by four front gates deposited in etched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. E. Camino , W. Zhou , V. J. Goldman

We report measurements of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in normal metal rings in the presence of high frequency electromagnetic fields. The power dependence of the decoherence time scale tau_phi(P) agrees well with the anticipated power law…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Josef-Stefan Wenzler , Pritiraj Mohanty

We study the coherent transport of heavy holes through a one-dimensional ring in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Spin-orbit interaction of holes, cubic in the in-plane components of momentum, gives rise to an angular momentum dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Dimitrije Stepanenko , Minchul Lee , Guido Burkard , Daniel Loss