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Electron transport through a spin-orbit-coupled quantum ring is investigated within linear response theory. We show that the finite width of the ring results in the appearance of Fano resonances in the conductance. This turns out to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters

We investigate an adiabatic spin pumping through a quantum dot with a single orbital energy level under the Zeeman effect. Electron pumping is produced by two periodic time dependent parameters, a magnetic field and a difference of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomosuke Aono

The effect of non-equilibrium constraints and dephasing on the circulating currents in molecular junctions are analyzed. Circulating currents are manifestations of quantum effects and can be induced either by externally applied bias or an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Upendra Harbola

We calculate the oscillations of the DC conductance across a mesoscopic ring, simultaneously tuned by applied magnetic and electric fields orthogonal to the ring. The oscillations depend on the Aharonov-Bohm flux and of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capozza , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , A. Tagliacozzo

In the present review we make a comprehensive analysis of our understanding on electron transport in mesoscopic single-channel rings and multi-channel cylinders within a tight-binding framework. A spectacular mesoscopic phenomenon where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Santanu K. Maiti

Topological Thouless pumping and Aharonov-Bohm effect are both fundamental effects enabled by the topological properties of the system. Here, we study both effects together: topological pumping of interacting particles through Aharonov-Bohm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Tobias Haug , Rainer Dumke , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Luigi Amico

We show that temporal shape modulations (pumping) of a quantum dot in the presence of spin-orbital coupling lead to a finite dc spin current. Depending on the strength of the spin-orbit coupling, the spin current is polarized perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Prashant Sharma , Piet W. Brouwer

The spin-resolved non-equilibrium real-time electron transport through a double-quantum-dot (DQD) Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is explored. The SOI and AB interference in the real-time dynamics of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Amnon Aharony , Wei-Min Zhang , Ora Entin-Wohlman

We investigate the behavior of the quantized Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional quantum system under rotating effects, a uniform magnetic field, and an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux tube. By varying the angular velocity and the AB flux, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Carlos Magno O. Pereira , Luís Fernando C. Pereira , Denise Assafrão , Edilberto O. Silva

One-dimensional quantum rings with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings are studied analytically and are in perfect agreement with the numerical results. The topological charge of the spin field defined by the winding number along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shenglin Peng , Wenchen Luo , Fangping Ouyang , Tapash Chakraborty

We study the spin-dependent magneto conductance in mesoscopic rings subject to an inhomogeneous in-plane magnetic field. We show that the polarization direction of transmitted spin-polarized electrons can be controlled via an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego Frustaglia , Martina Hentschel , Klaus Richter

We demonstrate that the combined effect of a spatially periodic potential, lateral confinement and spin-orbit interaction gives rise to a quantum ratchet mechanism for spin-polarized currents in two-dimensional coherent conductors. Upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-07 Matthias Scheid , Andreas Pfund , Dario Bercioux , Klaus Richter

We consider a nonrelativistic quantum charged particle moving on a plane under the influence of a uniform magnetic field and driven by a periodically time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm flux. We observe an acceleration effect in the case when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-15 T. Kalvoda , P. Stovicek

We present a simple model of transmission across a metallic mesoscopic ring. In one of its arm an electron interacts with a single magnetic impurity via an exchange coupling. We show that entanglement between electron and spin impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Jayannavar

We study the quantum spin pumping of an antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain with competing exchange interactions. We show that spatially periodic potential modulated in space and time acts as a quantum spin pump. In our model system, an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Sujit Sarkar , C. D. Hu

We consider a flux-threaded Aharonov-Bohm ring with an embedded quantum dot coupled to two normal leads. The local Rashba spin-orbit interaction acting on the dot electrons leads to a spin-dependent phase factor in addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-14 Jong Soo Lim , Mircea Crisan , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez , Ioan Grosu

We investigate the properties of strongly correlated electronic models on a flux-threaded ring connected to semi-infinite free-electron leads. The interference pattern of such an Aharonov-Bohm ring shows sharp dips at certain flux values,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Hallberg , A. A. Aligia , A. P. Kampf , B. Normand

We present a comprehensive investigation into the charge and spin circular currents in a mesoscopic hybrid system, with a particular focus on the intricate interplay between the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) potential, Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Joydeep Majhi , Santanu K. Maiti

We study the transport properties of a quantum dot embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm ring in the presence of spin-orbit interactions. Using a numerical renormalization group analysis of the system in the Kondo regime, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-13 E. Vernek , N. Sandler , S. E. Ulloa

We study theoretically the spin transport of a Quantum Spin Hall round disk. When an electron traverses the disk in virtue of the edge states, its spin's in-plane component can be rotated by a magnetic flux through the disk. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-07 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Wen-Yu Shan