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The conventional unpolarized current injected into a {\em quantum-coherent} semiconductor ring attached to two external leads can be modulated from perfect conductor to perfect insulator limit via Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satofumi Souma , Branislav K. Nikolic

From the interaction of the permanent magnetic dipole moment of a neutral particle with an electric field inside a long non-conducting cylindrical shell of inner radius $r_{a}$ and outer radius $r_{b}$, we show that a geometric quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 K. Bakke , C. Furtado

We study charge and spin pumping in an interacting one-dimensional wire. We show that a spatially periodic potential modulated in space and time acts as a quantum pump inducing a dc-current component at zero bias. The current generated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Citro , N. Andrei , Q. Niu

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect has been highly influential in fundamental and applied physics. Its topological nature commonly implies that an electron encircling a magnetic flux source in a field-free region must close the loop in order to…

We study the time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect on the noncommutative space. Because there is no net Aharonov-Bohm phase shift in the time-dependent case on the commutative space, therefore, a tiny deviation from zero indicates new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-10 Kai Ma , Jian-Hua Wang , Huan-Xiong Yang

We present a detailed analysis of the Aharonov-Bohm interference oscillations manifested through transmission of an electron in a mesoscopic ring with a magnetic impurity atom inserted in one of its arms. The electron interacts with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandeep K. Joshi , Debendranath Sahoo , A. M. Jayannavar

We study the influence of spin polarization on the degree of coherence of electron transport through interacting quantum dots. To this end, we identify transport regimes in which the degree of coherence can be related to the visibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-04 Bastian Hiltscher , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We develop a theory for charge and spin current between two canted magnetic leads flowing through a quantum dot with an arbitrary local interaction. For a noncollinear magnetic configuration, we calculate equilibrium and nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Silas Hoffman , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study non-equilibrium current and occupation probabilities of a two-orbital quantum dot. The couplings to the leads are allowed to be asymmetric and orbital dependent as it is generically the case in transport experiments on molecules…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 S. Y. Mueller , V. Koerting , D. Schuricht , S. Andergassen

This research paper delves into the study of a non-relativistic quantum system, considering the interplay of non-inertial effects induced by a rotating frame and confinement by the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux field with potential in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Faizuddin Ahmed , Houcine Aounallah , Prabir Rudra

We address spin dependent transport through an array of diamonds in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction where each diamond plaquette is penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux $\phi$. The diamond chain is attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We study non-adiabatic charge pumping through single-level quantum dots taking into account Coulomb interactions. We show how a truncated set of equations of motion can be propagated in time by means of an auxiliary-mode expansion. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We study nonequilibrium generation of spin-dependent transport through a single-level quantum dot embedded in a ring with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider nonmagnetic systems, involving no magnetic field nor ferromagnetic leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Nobuhiko Taniguchi , Kenta Isozaki

For a double quantum dot system in a parallel geometry, we demonstrate that by combining the effects of a flux and driving an electrical current through the structure, the spin correlations between electrons localized in the dots can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 C. A. Büsser , F. Heidrich-Meisner

The influence of the inhomogeneous distribution of the magnetic flux on quantum transport through coupled double quantum dots embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer are investigated. We show that the effective tunnelling coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi-Ming Bai , Min-Fong Yang , Yung-Chung Chen

To lowest order in the coupling strength, the spin-orbit coupling in quantum dots results in a spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm flux. This flux decouples the spin-up and -down random matrix theory ensembles of the quantum dot. We employ this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Held , E. Eisenberg , B. L. Altshuler

This work presents a study on the nonrelativistic quantum motion of a charged particle in a rotating frame, considering the Aharonov-Bohm effect and a uniform magnetic field. We derive the equation of motion and the corresponding radial…

The time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for an electron passing through a semiconductor quantum ring of nonzero width is solved in the presence of a perpendicular homogenous magnetic field. We study the effects of the Lorentz force on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters

The Aharanov-Bohm (AB) effect, which predicts that a magnetic field strongly influences the wave function of an electrically charged particle, is investigated in a three site system in terms of the quantum control by an additional dephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Georg Engelhardt , Jianshu Cao

We investigate the influence of the Coulomb interaction on the adiabatic pumping current through quantum dots. Using nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques, we derive a general expression for the current based on the instantaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-16 A. R. Hernández , F. A. Pinheiro , C. H. Lewenkopf , E. R. Mucciolo