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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

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

A model of a spin valve in which electron transport between the magnetized electrodes is due to multistep tunneling is analyzed. Motivated by recent experiments on organic spin valves, we assume that spin memory loss in the course of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. C. Roundy , M. E. Raikh

We investigate theoretically the balance of the static magnetic and the dynamical photon forces in the electron transport through a quantum dot in a photon cavity with a single photon mode. The quantum dot system is connected to external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

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 effect of electron-electron interaction on transport through a tunnel-coupled single-channel ring. We find that the conductance as a function of magnetic flux shows a series of interaction-induced resonances that survive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-13 A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , D. G. Polyakov

We explore electron transport in a thin cylinder, attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes, in the presence of both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fluxes. A simple tight-binding model is used to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti

Circulating orbital currents produced by the spin-orbit interaction for a single electron spin in a quantum dot are explicitly evaluated at zero magnetic field, along with their effect on the total magnetic moment (spin and orbital) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 J. van Bree , A. Yu. Silov , P. M. Koenraad , M. E. Flatté

Electronic transport through a triple-quantum-dot ring with three terminals is theoretically studied. By introducing local Rashba spin-orbit interaction on an individual quantum dot, we find that the spin bias in one terminal drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 Weijiang Gong , Hui Li , Guozhu Wei

Magnetic field usually leads to a polarization of electron spins. It is shown that in a system of {\em strongly interacting} particles applying magnetic field may lead to an opposite effect -- depolarization of electron spins. Results of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Mikhailov , N. A. Savostianova

We study the effect of the domain wall on electronic transport properties in wire of ferromagnetic 3$d$ transition metals based on the linear response theory. We considered the exchange interaction between the conduction electron and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gen Tatara

We investigate effects of electron-electron interaction on the transmission probability of electrons through a tunnel junction in a strong magnetic field. We start with the Hartree-Fock approximation, and we show that the coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshihiro Kubo , Arisato Kawabata

We investigate electron transporting through a two-dimensional ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic tunnel junction on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator with taking into $\delta$ doping account. It is found that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-05 Jian-Hui Yuan , Yan Zhang , Daizheng Huang , Qinhu Zhong , Xin Zhang

The radial confining potential in a semiconductor nanowire plays a key role in determining its quantum transport properties. Previous reports have shown that an axial magnetic field induces flux-periodic conductance oscillations when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Gregory W. Holloway , Daryoush Shiri , Chris M. Haapamaki , Kyle Willick , Grant Watson , Ray R. LaPierre , Jonathan Baugh

Electron transport through multi-terminal rectangular arrays of quantum rings is studied in the presence of Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and of a perpendicular magnetic field. Using the analytic expressions for the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Francois M. Peeters

We investigate the effect of quantisation of vibrational modes on a system in which the transport path is through a quantum dot mounted on a cantilever or spring such that tunnelling to and from the dot is modulated by the oscillation. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Angus MacKinnon , Andrew D Armour

Quantum transport properties through some multilevel quantum dots sandwiched between two metallic contacts are investigated by the use of Green's function technique. Here we do parametric calculations, based on the tight-binding model, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate spin-dependent conductance through a quantum Aharonov-Bohm ring containing localized electrons which interact with the propagating flow of electrons via exchange interaction of the ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic type. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 I. G. Savenko , R. G. Polozkov , I. A. Shelykh

We consider an electron constrained to move on a surface with revolution symmetry in the presence of a constant magnetic field $B$ parallel to the surface axis. Depending on $B$ and the surface geometry the transverse part of the spectrum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Pavel Exner , Alain Joye