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The probability density of a quantum particle moving freely within a circular ring can exhibit local flow patterns inconsistent with its angular momentum, a phenomenon known as quantum backflow. In this study, we examine a quantum particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Arseni Goussev , Felix Quinque , Jaewoo Joo , Andrew Burbanks

Quantum tunneling of an electron through a classically forbidden regime has no classical analogue and several aspects of it are still not well understood. In this work we analyze electronic currents under the barrier. For this we consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sreemoyee Mukherjee , P. Singha Deo , A. M. Jayannavar

We present studies of the Coulomb blockade and Kondo regimes of transport through a quantum dot connected to current leads through spin-polarizing quantum point contacts (QPCs). This structure, arising from the effect of lateral spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-21 Anh T. Ngo , Edson Vernek , Sergio E. Ulloa

We propose a spin polarizer device composed of a quantum dot connected to the spin polarized leads. The spin control of the current flowing through the device is entirely due to the Coulomb interactions present inside the dot. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Stefanski

We investigate magnetic-field influenced time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a two-dimensional quantum ring in an electromagnetic cavity under non-equilibrium conditions described by a time-convolutionless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We analize theoretically the dynamics of N electrons localized in a semiconductor quantum ring under a train of phase-locked infrared laser pulses. The pulse sequence is designed to control the total angular momentum of the electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V Pershin , Carlo Piermarocchi

The electronic transport in a system of two quantum rings side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We derived analytical expressions for the conductance, density of states and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. A. Orellana , M. Pacheco

We use a generalized master equation (GME) formalism to describe the non-equilibrium time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a short quantum wire connected to semi-infinite biased leads. The contact strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Kristinn Torfason , Andrei Manolescu , Valeriu Molodoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study a non-adiabatic excitation of an electron system in a 1D quantum ring radiated by a short THz pulse. The response of two models, a continuous and discrete, is explored. By introducing a spatial asymmetry in the external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigridur Sif Gylfadottir , Marian Nita , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Classical and quantum correlation functions are derived for a system of non-interacting particles moving on a circle. It is shown that the decaying behaviour of the classical expression for the correlation function can be recovered from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 B. Buck , C. V. Sukumar

The magnetic moment of a closed loop with a steady current distribution is thoroughly described in many classical physics textbooks. Although usually the examples studied assume plane loops for explicit calculations of the magnetic moment,…

General Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Julio Nascimento , Fernando Moraes

We present studies of the electron transport and circular currents induced by the bias voltage and the magnetic flux threading a ring of three quantum dots coupled with two electrodes. Quantum interference of electron waves passing through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Bogdan R. Bułka , Jakub Łuczak

We consider the accurate investigation of the energy current and its components, heat and work, in some boundary driven quantum spin systems. The expressions for the currents, as well as the associated Lindblad master equation, are obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Luís H. Reis , Saulo H. S. Silva , Emmanuel Pereira

Nanoscopic rings pierced by external magnetic fields and asymmetrically connected to wires behave in sharp contrast with classical expectations. By studying the real-time evolution of tight-binding models in different geometries, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Michele Cini , Enrico Perfetto

An unpolarized charge current passing through a chaotic quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling can produce a spin polarized exit current without magnetic fields or ferromagnets. We use random matrix theory to estimate the typical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob J. Krich , Bertrand I. Halperin

We considered the circulating current induced by the current magnification and the persistent current induced by Aharonov-Casher flux. The persistent currents have directional dependence on the direct current flow, but the circulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taeseung Choi , Chang-Mo Ryu , A. M. Jayannavar

The co-tunneling current through a two-level doubly occupied quantum dot weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads is calculated in the Coulomb blockade regime. It is shown that the dependence of the differrential conductance on applied voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 A. U. Sharafutdinov , I. S. Burmistrov

We investigate spin and charge current through a quantum dot pumped by a time-varying magnetic field. Using the density matrix method, quantum rate equations for the electronic occupation numbers in the quantum dot are obtained and solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhao Yang Zeng , Hong Li , Baowen Li

This paper investigates quantized thin vortex rings with an internal structure. The quantization scheme of this dynamical system is based on an earlier the approach proposed by the author. Both energy spectrum and circulation spectrum are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sergei V. Talalov

The persistent current in two vertically coupled quantum rings containing few electrons is studied. We find that the Coulomb interaction between the rings in the absence of tunneling affects the persistent current in each ring and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-30 L. K. Castelano , G. -Q. Hai , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters