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Using extensive tight-binding calculations, we investigate (including the spin) the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in monolayer and bilayer trigonal and hexagonal graphene rings with zigzag boundary conditions. Unlike the previous literature, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We present evidence of magnetic ordering in type-II (Zn, Mn) Te quantum dots. This ordering is attributed to the formation of bound magnetic polarons caused by the exchange interaction between the strongly localized holes and Mn within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. R. Sellers , R. Oszwaldowski , V. R. Whiteside , M. Eginligil , A. Petrou , I. Zutic , W-C. Chou , W. C. Fan , A. G. Petukhov , B. D. McCombe

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

We report Aharonov-Bohm (AB)-type quantum interference in simply-connected devices created at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface using conductive-atomic force microscope (c-AFM) lithography. The oscillations are multi-periodic functions of…

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in a graphene quantum ring with a top gate covering one arm of the ring. As graphene is a gapless semiconductor this geometry allows to study not only the quantum interference of electrons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Smirnov , H. Schmidt , R. J. Haug

We study electron decoherence by measuring the temperature dependence of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in quasi-1D rings, etched in a high-mobility GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructure. The oscillation amplitude is influenced both by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. E. Hansen , A. Kristensen , S. Pedersen , C. B. Sorensen , P. E. Lindelof

Spins of charge carriers, paramagnetic centers, and nuclei in semiconductor structures are known to be oriented if circular-polarized light is shined upon the structure. This is due to transfer of angular momentum from photons to various…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill Kavokin

Generation of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase has achieved a state-of-the-art in mesoscopic systems with manipulation and control of the AB effect. The possibility of transfer information enconded in such systems to non-classical states of light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Thiago Prudencio

We analyze interference phenomena in the quantum-Hall analog of the Fabry-Perot interferometer, exploring the roles of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, Coulomb interactions, and fractional statistics on the oscillations of the resistance as one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bertrand I. Halperin , Ady Stern , Izhar Neder , Bernd Rosenow

We investigate resonant tunneling through molecular states of coupled double quantum dots embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. The conductance through the system consists of two resonances associated with the bonding and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kicheon Kang , Sam Young Cho

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in non-commutative quantum mechanics (NCQM) is studied. First, by introducing a shift for the magnetic vector potential we give the Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equations in the presence of a magnetic field on NC space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 Kang Li , Sayipjamal Dulat

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 study electron transport through multiply-connected mesoscopic geometries containing interacting quantum dots. Our formulation covers both equilibrium and non-equilibrium physics. We discuss the relation of coherent transport channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jürgen König , Yuval Gefen

Gaussian linking of a semiclassical path of a charged particle with a magnetic flux tube is responsible for the Aharonov-Bohm effect, where one observes interference proportional to the magnitude of the enclosed flux. We construct quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Roman V. Buniy , Thomas W. Kephart

One of the key features of the Majorana bound states emerging in topological superconducting (SC) wires is increasing oscillations of their energy under the growth of magnetic field or chemical potential due to concomitant enhancement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 S. V. Aksenov

We present low-temperature magnetotransport measurements on graphene rings encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. We investigate phase-coherent transport and show Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in quasi-ballistic graphene rings with hard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jan Dauber , Martin Oellers , Florian Venn , Alexander Epping , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Fabian Hassler , Christoph Stampfer

We have investigated the Aharonov-Bohm effect in mesoscopic semiconductor GaAs/GaAlAs rings in low magnetic fields. The oscillatory magnetoconductance of these systems is systematically studied as a function of electron density. We observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Hansen , S. Pedersen , A. Kristensen , C. B. Sorensen , P. E. Lindelof

We report a numerical study on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect and parity selective tunneling in pn junctions based on zigzag graphene nanoribbon rings. We find that when applying a magnetic field to the ring, the AB interference can reverse the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Yann-Michel Niquet , Philippe Dollfus

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

In an earlier paper it was demonstrated that the hypothesized electrostatic version of the Aharonov-Bohm ("AB") effect does not exist. The conclusion follows straightforwardly once one recognizes that interference takes place in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Allan Walstad