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We study a quantum dot Josephson junction inside an Aharonov-Bohm environment. The geometry is modeled by an Anderson impurity coupled to two directly-linked BCS leads. We illustrate that the well-established picture of the low-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Karrasch , V. Meden

Recent experiments involving semiconducting quantum dots embedded in Aharonov-Bohm interferometry setups suggest that information concerning the phase of electron wavefunctions can be obtained from transport measurements. Here we review the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuval Gefen

Bonding and anti-bonding states of artificial molecules have been realized in experiments by directly coupling two quantum dots. Without a direct coupling between two nearby quantum dots, here we show that a continuous crossover, from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Wei-Min Zhang , Franco Nori

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference patterns in ring-shaped conductors are usually dominated by random features. The amplitude of the oscillations is random from sample to sample and from point to point on the magnetic field axis owing to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Liu , W. X. Gao , K. Ismail , K. Y. Lee , J. M. Hong , S. Washburn

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 study coherence of electron transport through interacting quantum dots and discuss the relation of the coherent part to the flux-sensitive conductance for three different types of Aharonov-Bohm interferometers. Contributions to transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jürgen König , Yuval Gefen

This paper theoretically studies the quantum coherence of an electronic state on an artificial chiral Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquid. Coulomb interaction between copropagating integer quantum Hall edge channels causes the TL liquid nature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Eiki Iyoda , Takase Shimizu , Masayuki Hashisaka

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect highlights the fundamental role of electromagnetic potentials in quantum mechanics, manifesting as a phase shift for a charged particle in field-free regions. While well-established for static magnetic fluxes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Shan Gao

By nonperturbatively solving the nonequilibrium Anderson two-impurity model with the hierarchical equations of motion approach, we report a robust ferromagnetic (FM) phase in series-coupled double quantum dots, which can suppress the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 WenJie Hou , YuanDong Wang , JianHua Wei , YiJing Yan

Transport measurements are presented on a quantum ring that is tunnel-coupled to a quantum dot. When the dot is in the Coulomb blockade regime, but strongly coupled to the open ring, Fano line shapes are observed in the current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fuhrer , P. Brusheim , T. Ihn , M. Sigrist , K. Ensslin , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

We theoretically analyze the effect of electron-electron interactions on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) current oscillations in ring-shaped systems with metallic quantum dots pierced by external magnetic field. We demonstrate that electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-21 Andrew G. Semenov , Dmitri S. Golubev , Andrei D. Zaikin

We investigate the quantum transport dynamics of electrons in a multi-path Aharonov-Bohm interferometer comprising several parallel graphene nanoribbons. At low magnetic field strengths, the conductance displays a complex oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Cynthia I. Osuala , Zitao Tang , Stefan Strauf , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Chunlei Qu

We theoretically investigated the dephasing in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing a lateral double quantum dot induced by coupling with a quantum dot charge sensor. We employed the interpolative 2nd-order perturbation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Kubo , Y. Tokura , S. Tarucha

In the present Note it is suggested that there should be a certain complementarity of phases between Aharonov-Bohm (AB) solenoid phase calculation on one part of the system and a phase calculation about another part of the physical system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Injection of mode-filtered electrons into a phase-sensitive four-terminal waveguide Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring is studied. An individually tuneable quantum point contact (QPC) in a waveguide lead of the GaAs/AlGaAs-ring allows to selectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Sven S. Buchholz , Ulrich Kunze , Saskia F. Fischer , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

Particle-hole symmetry of the Bogoliubov-de~Gennes Hamiltonian is widely assumed to enforce bias-symmetric transport at superconducting interfaces. We show that this expectation fails generically for interfaces with finite spatial extent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-17 Vishal Tripathi , Goutam Sheet

Aharonov-Bohm interferences in the quantum Hall regime are observed when electrons are transmitted between two edge channels. Such a phenomenon has been realized in 2D systems such as quantum point contacts, anti-dots and p-n junctions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Viet Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

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

We provide a theoretical explanation for two recent experiments on decoherence of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in two- and multi-terminal ballistic rings. We consider decoherence due to charge fluctuations and emphasize the role of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Seelig , Sebastian Pilgram , Markus Buttiker

We study coherent charge tunneling through a one-dimensional interacting ring with a one-dimensional quantum dot embedded in one of its arms through bosonisation. The symmetries of the effective action explain many of the features such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Durganandini , Sumathi Rao